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The Gaeltacht Irish-speaking region in County Mayo is the third-largest in Ireland with 10,886 inhabitants. These Irish-speaking areas of Mayo contain 5,956 Irish speakers. [49] Tourmakeady is the largest village in this area. All schools in the area use Irish as the language of instruction.
The Lavelles of Mayo and elsewhere in Connacht are believed by MacLysaght to be descendants of the clan Ó Maol Fábhail, a surname phonetically anglicised as Lavelle. On page 370 of Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh 's Iar Connacht , James Hardiman quotes the manuscript called Crichaireacht cinedach nduchasa Muintiri Murchada , which states that O ...
Map showing principal Irish surnames at the commencement of the 17th century. Clans of Ireland is a modern organization that was started in 1989 and has eligibility criteria for surnames to be included on their register of Irish clans. This includes that the family or clan can trace their ancestry back to before 1691 which is generally ...
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
O'Dowd (Irish: Ó Dubhda) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Mayo and County Sligo. The clan name originated in the 9th century as a derivative of its founder Dubda mac Connmhach. The O'Dowd clan can be traced to the Doonfeeney area of what is now the parish of Ballycastle in Co. Mayo.
Hennelly is a surname common to County Mayo in Ireland. English language form of Gaeilge Ó hIonnghaile. Variant of Ó Fionnghaile of the personal name Fionnghal, which gave rise to Fennelly. The English translation of Fionghal is "white shoulder" meaning Norseman or Viking.
County Mayo is a county in Ireland, it is the third-largest in Ireland and the second-largest in the province of Connacht. Mayo has produced many noted artists, entertainers, politicians and businesspeople. Also included are people affiliated with Mayo before the creation of the Republic of Ireland.
In a survey of birth indexes for Ireland that was carried out in 1890, there are thirty seven instances of the surname Haran or Haren with both names being most numerous in County Mayo, County Sligo, and County Clare. The surname has often been confused with Heran. However, Heran is a different name, derived from the Gaelic surname "Ó hEaráin ...