This name is Ó Cobhthaigh in Irish pronounced OCoffey in English.

Where did the o come from in irish names. OReilly is ranked tenth in the top twenty list of most common Irish surnames. The Queen of England is descended from the OBriens. His account of the journey provides invaluable eyewitness testimony to the trauma and tragedy that many emigrants had to face en route to their new lives in Canada and America.

Or A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel is based upon the diary of Robert Whyte who in 1847 crossed the Atlantic from Dublin to Quebec in an Irish emigrant ship. The Irish used a very particular naming pattern for children for about two centuries beginning in the late 1700s and going through the early to mid-1900s. Possibly derived from the old Irish root albho meaning white or ail meaning rock.

2 The name is commonly found throughout Ireland with the greatest concentration of the surname found in County Cavan followed by Longford Meath Westmeath Fermanagh and Monaghan and the Province of Leinster. The vast majority of Gaelic Irish surnames were created during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Many Irish surnames have a O in front in their Irish version this list is mainly confined to those names where the O is commonly used in the English version of the name.

It should be noted that the Scottish Gaels were actually descendants of Gaelic emigrants to Scotland. It was originally map the equivalent of the Gaelic peoples Mac Mc mic but dropped the m. In the late 1540s instead three administrative zones were created in what is now the county corresponding to the areas inhabited by the three septs of the OByrnes OTooles and Kavanaghs each ruled by an english captain from a convenient fort.

A list of Irish surnames beginning with the letter O. The lord deputy and council ratified their submission provided the at the King should accept it within a year but nothing was to come of this proposal. Back to Irish surnames Most OBriens originally came from Clare Waterford Tipperary or Limerick.

The OBriens were one of the most significant clans throughout Irish history. Thus OBrien and ONeill were originally pronounced OBreen and O. It is hardly necessary to state that these prefixes denote descent mac son indicating that the surname was formed from the personal names or sometimes calling of the father of the first man to bear that surname while O names are derived from a grandfather or even earlier ancestor o or ua being the Irish word for grandson or more loosely male descendant.