The top 100 Irish last names explained

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Murphy made this list, Ryan did not! WTF

The top two names in Irish are Murphy and Ryan by sheer volume. I think this list is misleading for that reason. Not many Scullys in the world either so thats why we didnt make this list so what gives. I guess fair enough you cant put everyone in the list.

why no Dunne name on the list. ancestors from clogorrow, co.kildare.

The most important O'Malley clan group from Tirawley, Co. Mayo has been omitted. Also though you do have a reference to the Leinster McMurroughs in relation to the McDavymore Redmonds of North Wexford, you make no mention of the powerful Kavanaghs/Cavanaghs. In general, McMurrough was used as a title for the Cavanagh clan chieftains rather than as a surname.

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McClung I look at the census that I have it is not on it early. Maybe after the early one was done. was done

this is for the lady wanting to know where her family is from NI and they have a lot of areas McClung's Northern ireland Antrim Armagh Down Tyrone only 31 families in the early years Help this helps. I do family history for a hobby

My husband is a Connolly from Cork. They arrived into New Brunswick in 1835 with the first group. Then came to Maine

shea- foot high wave eat- ireland, lake vanern, sweden.

My name is obviously a "Mac Suibhne" variant, and although I prefer the pronunciation "swenny", I usually answer to almost anthing! Iterestingly, my older generation (now passed on, R.I.P.) always used the pronunciation "swinny". My reason for writingin is that you have "suibhne" as meaning "peasant", whereas I have always seen it given as "pleasant", as opposed to "duibhne", which I understand to mean "dark, or unpleasant", as in Dublin, a dark pool. I don't mean to imply that Dublin is unpleaasant, far from it - I have always found it to be a most pleasant city to visit, and would recommendit anybody.

Like this site just not too helpful for me, at least not that I have been able to see. Trying to find where in Ireland the McClung's were from.

No Connolly's? We already know we are in top Irish names!! haha

The following shud be read after the one below? In any event you should include your source(s) as well as some sort of disclaimer that you have left out many names. You did include my mother's maiden name, Murphy, & her mother's name McGrath but left out my father's mother's name Cunniff, anglicized 'Bones' from the Irish word for bone, cnamh. To summarize, I would suggest that you list your source(s) or your criteria at the onset in order to avoid being personally accused of playing favorites as there are many disagreements in both Irish & Celtic history as well as genealogy. And as a postscript, for your information, a recent book (2006) by Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford, titled "Saxons, Vikings, and Celts" "The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland", published in England as "The Blood of the Isles", indicated that the overwhelming maternal & paternal DNA thruout the Republic & the UK is of an indigenous 'Insular' & an Atlantic coast Western 'Celtic' origin going back to Paleolithic & Mesolithic times, some 10,000 years ago. As Prof Sykes says: "The Irish, the Welsh and the Scots know this, but the English sometimes think otherwise. But, just a little way beneath the surface, the strands of ancestry weave us all together as the children of a common past."