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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : (Munster) Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Conchradha ‘son of Conchradh’, a personal name composed of the elements ‘hound’ + crádh ‘torment’, genitive crádha.
  • Irish : (southern Ulster) Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Con Rubha ‘son of Cú Rubha’, meaning ‘hound of the promontory’.

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