Last name origin & meaning: English and Scottish: ethnic name for someone from Ireland, Old
English Īraland. The country gets its name from the genitive
case of Old English Īras ‘Irishmen’ + land
‘land’. The stem Īr- is taken from the Celtic name for
Ireland, Èriu, earlier Everiu. The surname is
especially common in Liverpool, England, which has a large Irish
population.
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