☘️ Irish Names
A name can carry a remarkable amount of history.
In Ireland, surnames often tell stories of family, place, occupation, ancestry, and belonging. They have traveled through generations, sometimes changing along the way, but still carrying echoes of the people and places from which they came.
We’ve created a new Irish Names section at Carrick Mór to explore some of those stories.
You’ll find the Irish form of each name, its meaning, the county with which it is associated, and a little of the history behind it. Some stories reach deep into Ireland’s past; others reveal how names traveled, changed, and became part of communities far beyond their original home.
If you have an Irish name in your family, perhaps you’ll find it here. And if you don’t, there may be a name waiting to surprise you.