Find Out Here
Here is a link to the page where you can
see how popular your name, or the
spelling of your name was, over my 4
decades of research:
http://www.irishroots.com/content/view/21/45/
How Irish is it ?
Remember your name may be spelled
differently at different times in History.
Remember too, that it may have been
originally spelled in the Irish Gaelic
language. (These old Irish spellings
would really be the 'most' Irish.)
Conclusion
You can make an educated judgement
as to the popularity of your name in
Ireland, by the number of times it turns
up. You may also be able to determine
the most likely county of origin for the
name.
Bragging Rights ?
Of course, you may also be able to brag
that yours is more numerous than your
neighbors name. I am not exactly sure
of what good that will do you however.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Pittsburghkid | Nov 10, 2011, 10:00 PM EST
Protestant Irish are the real victims? You have to forget and look the other way about a lot that happened to the Catholics. The Potatoe Famine,or Cromwell was not mentioned. I guess that would confuse to point. Incomplete History like this gets in the way of peace. The Irish people fought with the Viking, and then assumulated them. The same is true with the Norman Irish. It was until religion and history was entered into the mix that the troubles began. I have a Scotch-Irish grandfather, and the rest our all Irish. My mother love her father, and my grandfather loved her red hair. My son-in-law is English, and a good husband, and the father of my granddughter. Do you ever hear of the Viking-Irish complaining about King Brian?
jamieLM | Oct 11, 2011, 06:17 PM EDT
@MOL - thanks for the tip about Donegal. We have 2 factions in the family debating over whether our MacLaughlins are Scots-Irish or Irish. I may have to draw blood for DNA. I'm an RN, so I'm not afraid of doing just that - LOL. I think the debate started when it was discovered that we had a lot Protestants in that line around the time of emigration to the U.S. and afterwards and we know they came from the north. In Ireland, they married a lot of people with surnames beginning with Mac and Mc.
Molaughlin | Oct 10, 2011, 02:15 PM EDT
I've seen quite a few Mac and McLaughlins in the north and Donegal. Some have even said the O'Loughlins of Clare descend more anciently from the MacLaughlins from the North. I have not yet seen much documentation on that claim however. The old County Clare histories do not make mention of that at all. Good luck on your search jamieLM, you may have to try DNA to settle the arguments...
jamieLM | Oct 10, 2011, 11:12 AM EDT
Thanks so much for the helpful link. We have a McLaughlin in our family tree and there's been much debate within the family about the counties, even country, of origin.