Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:57 pm
Where your folk came from
Click on letter to see if your name is listed
An introduction
Irish hereditary surnames date back to the 11th century and are among the oldest in the world. They developed spontaneously, as the population increased but there seems to be no grounds for accepting the suggestion that the system was introduced by Brian Boru, who died in 1014.
http://www.irishidentity.com/folk.htm