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The name O'Kelly did not spring from a single source, but arose independently in several areas in Ireland, also in Scotland and the Isle of Man and in England. In other areas, notably in Isle of Man, Cornwall and probably in Antrim, the name Kelly arose from Celli, meaning man of the woods.
O'Kelly (Irish: Ó Ceallaigh [ˌoː ˈcal̪ˠəj]) is an Irish surname and the name of a number of distinct sept families in Ireland. The most prominent of these is the O'Kelly sept who were the chiefly family of the Uí Maine in Connacht. [6] Another sept is that of the kingdom of Brega, descended from the Uí Néill.
Kelly is a unisex given name derived from an Anglicized version of the Irish masculine name Ceallach or a transferred use of the Irish surname O'Ceallaigh. O'Ceallaigh, which means "descendant of Ceallach", was Anglicized as Kelly or O'Kelly; the meaning of the personal name Ceallach is uncertain.
O'Kelly is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aloysius O'Kelly (1853–1936), Irish painter, brother of James Joseph O'Kelly; Auguste O'Kelly (1829–1900), music publisher in Paris; Christopher O'Kelly (1895–1922), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross; Don O'Kelly (1924–1966), American actor
The coat of arms of the O Kelly of Ui Maine, featuring a green enfield as the crest. The earliest known example of the enfield is the crest of the Ó Cellaigh clan of Ireland. Ó Cellaigh of Uí Maine are the most documented O'Kelly sept in early Irish history and annals.
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During the first period of recorded history the island was occupied by Celtic speaking peoples and later Christianised by Irish missionaries. By the 9th century Vikings, generally from Norway, ruled the island: Old Norse speaking settlers intermarried with the Gaelic speaking native population, and Norse personal names found their way into common Manx usage.
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