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Ancestry.com - Search Reference Materials & Finding Aids Records
Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.
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Original source: Woulfe, Patrick. Irish Names and Surnames. Dublin, Ireland: M. H. Gill and Son, Ltd., 1923.
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An examination of the origin and meaning of some Irish surnames and forenames, taken from John O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation.
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Celtic Surnames - "For the Tongue of the Gael" by Tomas O Flannghaile, 1896
A examination of the Celtic origin of many surnames (mainly Irish, but including Cornish, Breton, Scottish, Manx, and Welsh), and some Christian names, which have now become Anglicised.
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dúchas.ie - Irish Surname Index
This is a collection of surnames that developed from the work of the Irish Folklore Commission and it is being made available here under an open licence by Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and the National Folklore Collection, UCD. Please note that this is not an authoritative index of surnames, nor has it been edited.
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Scottish, Irish, and Manx Gaelic dictionaries.
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Enter text (copy & paste is easiest, if possible), translate a web page by entering a URL, or upload a document for translation: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.
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Some leading prefixes and affixes employed in the formation of Irish proper names, e.g. Beag, Mac, Og, Muintir, etc. etc.
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A premium online Irish Gaelic dictionary providing quick word searches, definitions and usage.
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Common Irish first names.
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Irish Names - From Ancient to Modern
Meanings and origins of first names.
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A scholarly work on Irish names by the Rev. Patrick Woulfe, first published in1921. The book includes more than 3,500 surname entries that provide the origin and meaning of each name, as well as its English equivalents.
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Accepts submissions of web URL's for Irish name web homepages.
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Origin and Meaning of Irish Surnames
An overview of the history of Gaelic, Norman, English, Viking, Huguenot and Palatine surnames found in Ireland, with an A-Z.
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Surname origins maps historic surname distributions for England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and The United States. Unlike most surname mapping sites it uses sub county/state units to create highly detailed distributions. Users submit their surname data which are then mapped for a modest fee.
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The 'Muls' and 'Gils': Some Irish Surnames
An examination of the origin and meaning of Irish surnames beginning with the prefixes 'Mul' and 'Gil', amongst other names.
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A list of some Irish baptismal names, with origins or meanings, and a guide to pronunciation.
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Information on surnames in Ireland.
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