The top 100 Irish last names explained

I bought a map a long time ago that had names written in each county. My family name is very rare though very old Irish so it was on that map right where my Dad claimed the family came from. He was wrong only by a few miles though. Back in the old days prior to being invaded by England County Longford had different boundaries which included where my father had chosen for our family. But after the plantations the lines were redrawn. I found my family right where they were suppose to be in Longford right near the border of Westmeath. They have lived there for a very long, long ,long ,time. That map I bought for five dollars at a city fair was the start of my search.

Well I wish I could read all the names on the Map! The print is to small and blury. I am looking for 2 last names, Greenlaw and O'Camb

Great list but seems to be short of some other popular names.

My name is Kavanagh,(not mentioned) and having read about a lot of VERY, VERY popular Irish names omitted, this list is completely and utterly inaccurate. I'm surprised that Kennedy made your list.

...whelan=gwylan(Walsh)=gwelan/goelan(Breton)==foilenn= violenno(OCeltic)=guilan(Cornish)=gull=uilana(N)=to drag all 4's, wings and talons. (N)=Nauatl, e.g., ce(N)=one,=cel/celtin(N)=only/alone. so you see, me heartys, Nauatl is Celtic, and every other language. when (o)=0lin(N)inserted=violin/violet/violence, because what do you do with a violin but drag it? and the word, wheel(E)= uilana(N)because that's what a gull/whelan do. aren't i the smart ass?, but the Church made us stupid on this one.

Just got and email from my Irish Cousin Galway we have the Birminghams as far as the 1700 where is it before that?

TOP 100? All Irish names are TOP. O'Mahony, McCarthy and O'Driscoll are names from the Norman times.

Can't you guys afford a proofreader? Or editor? "(The adjective muadh) denotes bit and soft as well noble)." I have no idea what that sentence means.

Celticlady51-One possible explanation for your Dutch origin.Protestant Anglo-Irish landowners employed native Irish only as a very last resort.Hundreds of poor Protestant Germans and Dutch were 'imported'to work in the great houses and on estates.By no means were all servants English or Scottish.

Does anyone know how Melville came to Co Kerry? It is Scottish in origin-I know that much. Did any of the defeated Jacobite army flee south after the Boyne defeat?

so what about flannagan,flannigan,flanigan or o,flanigan,whatcan you tell me. ?

Looking for connection to N. Ireland for Andrew Moore, who most likely immigrated to the US prior to the Rev. War and settled in Washington County, PA.

Looking for clams for Mc Aninch and McElderry, both in N. Ireland. I found suggestions that these families were in the counties of Ulster, Armagh, Down, and Tyrone respectively. Would appreciate any suggestions on which villages might be associated with these families. Thank you.

another name that was left out was (O')Ronayne/Ronan/Rónáin. This name has been in Ireland for at least 2,000 years.

As I didn't see my family names, could you do an issue of The Tribes of Galway, my family names on my mother's side is French or ffrench. Would love to see what information you could up with to compare to my own. There is Castle French, Frenchpark, etc........ Even my great great grandmothers name Harrigan wasn't mentioned or on my father's side McGuin. Thank you.