So it comes as no surprise that no matter where you go, you tend to run into classic Irish names. When you look in the net you can see various origins for the name :Vikings were known town builders. They also have complied a list of 300 of the most common names in Ireland. That is odd to me considering the Irish favored stags and lions. My great grandfather came from Ballymote, Ireland sometime in the 1840’s I once read in a book that Dockray is a very ancient name & aprat fromLook at the Annals of Ulster, 974 for Diarmait son of Dochartach – he was the Abbot of Devenish Monastery in County Fermanagh and the son of the eponymous ancestor of the O’Dogherty, O’Dougherty, O’Doherty a the English spelling of the name has progressed in Ireland over last few centuries.
can any one shed any light on this puzzleMy maiden name is Wade and I’ve just been told we are of Norwegian descent.
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Good example I can think of is the surname McManus. being mcquaid and wade being referenced to a mythical sea god who guarded the baltic seas ?.my family are from cork . Reply. Place names in these regions were also influenced by the Vikings. Many are found south of Donegal in counties Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon as well as Scotland and later North America. The other clusters with Maguires and other Fermanagh surnames (including McAuley another Maguire branch with a norse personal name in mix)In neither case do we see men bearing the surname match with people with more modern origins in Scandinavia.Very interesting. Appears originally in Waterford at least as early as 11th century. I recently had a DNA test done and the resurlts are confusing to me. This name will appear beside any comments you post. To comment you must now be an Irish Times subscriber. That name was corrupted with many spellings in both Scotland and America as Dochery, Dockety, Dorrity, etc.The O’Dogherty’s were expelled from their homeland on the Inis Eogain, Peninsula West of Derry in County Donegal during the Ulster Plantation. Commenting on The Irish Times has changed. Chances are, you can find her drinking coffee in some hidden gem cafe in Dublin, planning her next big trip.Top 100 Irish surnames & last names (family names ranked) So , your DNA tests are not wrong .
The Vikings were in Ireland for relatively short time, but they left a considerable legacy of names behind. The name became popular amongst the Irish. The results are Scandinavian. Family is from Wexford Ireland and some in Waterford. The word dochar in Irish means “trouble” and, as you can imagine, little used as either a given name or surname other than as a descendant of Dochartach whose annals’ name was probably a by-name, pet name etc. You may be aware of the Swedish colony that went to Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Delaware area in 1638. My question is how is this possible? My maternal grandmother was 100% Irish and 50% on my paternal side. Obviously relevant genealogies show up in for example Mac Fhirbhisigh etc.Unsurprisingly in relevant databases we see that men with surname McManus who have done comprehensive testing tend to fall into two major clusters (there are smaller ones as well), one cluster shows close match with men bearing the surname O’Connor and other west of Ireland surnames (generally names associated with the Uí Briúin). I had the test done two times from two different samples and still the results are the same. The O’Dochartaigh Association accepts all such spellings as variants of O’Doherty. My mum’s maiden name is Hopper, and through ages of oral tradition, the Hoppers are part viking.
Doyle is Ó Dubhghaill, from We adopted them early and we adopted them with gusto. Hereditary surnames still don’t exist in that most Viking of countries, Iceland, where personal names continue to last only a single generation.Other Norse-origin names provide evidence of the importance of those naming practices. Read more: The Viking Lifestyle. Some, such as Some names from this time are descriptive, so that The most famous bearer of the Doyle name is probably the 1950’s Irish-American boxer, Jack Doyle, also known as the “Gorgeous Gael”.Other Norse names found occasionally in Ireland still include It has been widely assumed that the contribution of Vikings to Irish surnames was relatively small, with just a few surviving names as their entire legacy. There was a large monastic settlement in Mungret in the 5th and 6th century, and at one time there were 150 men in Mungret named Loftus .