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O'Duffy
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The name Duffy or O'Duffy is widespread in Ireland: it is among the fifty commonest surnames; standing first in the list for Co. Monaghan, it is also very numerous in north connacht. It is found in Munster to some extent but there is often takes the form Duhig, while in parts of Donegal it has become Doohey and Dowey. These variants arose from local pronunciations of the Irish O Dubhthaigh, a surn.....
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Heraldry Database: OÂ'friel
OÂ'Friel
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Surname: OÂ'Friel
Branch: O'Friel
Origins: Irish
More Info: Ireland
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Background: The name is etymologically the same as Farrell. The leading family were descended from a brother of St. Columcille and had the hereditary right of inaugurating O'Donnell as lord of Tirconnell.
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 Motto: None recorded. Arms: Gules in dexter fess a garb or, in sinister fess a dexter hand couped at the wrist fessways proper grasping a cross calvary on three grieces argent, in chief three mullets of the second. Crest: A garb or. View the Heraldry Dictionary for help.
O'Friel is a Donegal name. In Irish it is O'Firghil (from Feargal); it is pronounced, and often written, O'Frighil, i.e. in English phonetic O'Freel. The sept has a distinguished origin, being descended from Eoghan, brother of St. Columcille (Fr. John Ryan, S.J. has pointed out that the chief point of interest about the O'Friels is that they are nearest in blood to St. Colmcille, for they alone are in the direct line from his brother), and the leading family were hereditary coarbs of Kilmacrenan, County Donegal. The Chief of the Name possessed the hereditary right of inaugurating O'Donnell as lord of Ticonnell. Not being a powerful or numerous sept they do not appear very frequently in the national records; wherever they do they are of Tirconnell (Donegal). The records of the Diocese of Raphoe have many references to distinguished ecclesiastics of the name, both has O'Friel and Friel, including one Bishop Florence or Feargal O'Friel (death 1299). Awley O'Friel was one of the many clergy from Raphoe and Derry who went to Iona - he was elected Abbot of Iona in 1203.
Statistics relating to the modern distribution of the population indicate the name is seldom met with outside County Donegal and contiguous areas.
Name Variations: O'Friel, O'Friels, Friels, Feargal, O'Firghil, Friel, O'Frighil, Freel, O'Freel, Farrell.
References:One or more of the following publications has been referenced for this article.The General Armory; Sir Bernard Burke - 1842.
A Handbook of Mottoes; C.N. Elvin - 1860.
Irish Families, Their Names, Arms & Origins; Edward MacLysaght - 1957.
The Surnames of Ireland; Edward MacLynsaght - 1957.
The Book of Irish Families Great and Small.
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