enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Category:Surnames of Irish origin - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Surnames_of_Irish...

   View history; Tools. Tools. ... Anglicised Irish-language surnames (437 P) ... O'Shaughnessy family (22 P) Pages in category "Surnames of Irish origin"

3. Finnegan (surname) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegan_(surname)

   Frequently mentioned in the Irish Annals, they were able to retain most of their lands until the middle of the 16th century, when the present counties were formed. Over a hundred years later, when Petty's census was compiled, Finnegan was still recorded as a principal surname in counties Cavan and Monaghan.

4. Irish genealogy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_genealogy

   The transmission of this body of lore (Irish: seanchas) has resulted in detailed knowledge on the origins and history of many of the tribes and families of Ireland. An anglicized tradition has continued since the 17th-century, translating many of the scripts into English.

5. O'Sullivan (surname) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Sullivan_(surname)

   O'Sullivan is a surname of Irish origin. The surname is associated with the southwestern part of Ireland, and was originally found in County Tipperary and Kerry before the Anglo-Norman invasion. It is the third most numerous surname in Ireland. Roughly half of O'Sullivans hail from Ireland, with around 50% of the O'Sullivans residing there. [1]

6. Broderick (surname) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderick_(surname)

   The Irish Bruattar /Bruadar /Brodur is first recorded in 853, in the name of Bruattar mac Aeda, an Irish princeling from the south-east of Ireland. As a Norse personal name, Brodir is found in the name of a particular participant in the Battle of Clontarf and of a particular King of Dublin who was killed in 1160.

7. Corcoran (surname) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcoran_(surname)

   Corcoran is an Irish surname, the original Irish language form being Ó Corcráin meaning 'descendant of Corcrán' and MacCorcráin from Leinster meaning Son of Corcrán. The name itself is derived from corcair meaning 'purple'. [1]

8. McKenna (name) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKenna_(name)

   McKenna is an Irish surname. It derives from the Gaelic name Cináed (Anglicized as Kenneth), meaning, “born of fire.” It is the anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Cionaodha meaning "son of Cionnaith", or of the Scottish surname, from Galloway, "MacCionaodha".

9. Brennan (surname) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennan_(surname)

   Brennan (/ ˈ b r ɛ n ən /) [1] is an Irish surname which is an anglicised form of two different Irish-language surnames: Ó Braonáin and Ó Branáin (or Mac Branáin). [2] [3] [4] Historically, one source of the surname was the prominent clan Ua Braonáin (O'Brennan) of Uí Duach (Idough) [5] in Osraige who were a junior Dál Birn sept stemming from a younger son of Cerball mac Dúnlainge ...