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25 Mar 2020

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Surnames

  • Broderick
  • Burke
  • Byrne
  • Carroll and O’Carroll
  • Doherty, O’Doherty and Doorty
  • Dunne or Dunn
  • Fitzgerald
  • Flynn and O’Flynn
  • Kavanagh, Cavanagh, Kinsella and Redmond
  • MacCarthy
  • Mahony and O’Mahony
  • Mehegan or Mehigan
  • Murphy
  • O’Connor
  • O’Donnell
  • O’Kelly and Kelly
  • O’Neill
  • O’Shea’s
  • O’Sullivan
  • O’Sullivan Clan Video
  • Prendergasts
  • Supple
  • Wolfe and Woulfe

Genealogy Research

One of my chief passions in life is helping people to trace their Irish roots. Genealogy in Ireland is somewhat different from that practised in many other countries due to the destruction of the Irish Public Record Office in 1922. In this fire all census records dating to before 1901, most wills from before 1858, and many church records, particularly those of the Church of Ireland (Anglican) were destroyed.

Surname Research

The full form of most Irish surnames includes an ‘O’ or a ‘Mac’, meaning grandson of, or son of. These are Gaelic surnames, denoting members of the original Irish population whom we now know, from DNA studies, to have arrived on the island 9,000 years ago. Most Irish surnames belong to this category. Then there are Irish surnames of Anglo-Norman origin, amounting to perhaps 7% of the total.

Family Names

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Paul MacCotter MA, PhD, M.A.G.I.

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Email: paul@paulmaccotter.com

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