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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (mainly Counties Galway and Roscommon) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thoirdhealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal name Toirdhealbhach ‘Thor-shaped’. Compare Turley, from the unlenited form.

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