In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, we wanted to share an interesting map called “Geo-Genealogy of Irish Surnames”. Some of you may remember it from the 2009 Esri International User Conference. This map won two awards in the Map Gallery Competition. It placed first in the “Most Uniqu...
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Few Irish surnames have been more barbarously maltreated by the introduction of the English language into Ireland than Ó Brollachain. For some extraordinary reason, it was generally given as its anglicized form, the common English name Bradley. Though in a few places, notablyCounty Derry, it...
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The father and son relationships shown in this table make it possible to guess at the interpretation of the patronymic surnames in genealogies that have been published only in Gaelic. An example is Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502 published in the Celtic Corpus of Electronic Texts. In the sixth...
Irish Surnames Table uvxx*&^ Irish Family Names July 19, 2022 Acton Cunningham Gilpatrick Larkin McMurphy Oswald Aherne Curley Gilpin Laughlin McMurrin Oswell Ansbro Curran Gilroy Laughrey McNalley Owens Argue Curren Gilsenan Lavell McNally P Armstrong Currin Ging Lavelle McNally Padden Armstrong ...
This vista of varieties would lead us far; but it is enough to notice, nonsense apart, that the most ordinary English surnames have become unique in their social significance; they stand for the man rather than the race or the origins. Even when they are most common they are not communal...
My name is Debbie Heffernan Benko. I am researching my Irish roots on my father's side. His mother's parents came from Caherciveen, County Kerry, Ireland in 1901 and 1903, with cousins and other close relations a few years before and after. Relevant surnames include: Bowler, Sullivan, Co...
We first classified surnames according to the following categories; Irish Gaelic, English (which included English or Anglo-Norman surnames), Scottish (which included Scottish or Gallowglass surnames), or other. We then compared whether Atlas individuals in the 'Gaelic' Irish and N Ireland ...