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SURNAME SOURCES
FROM CLASSIC IRISH SURNAME BOOKS:
THE BOOK OF IRISH FAMILIES GREAT & SMALL
By Michael O'Laughlin, p. 199:
"Moher, Mogher, O'Mohir, Moir
The census of 1659 gives the family as a principal one of Co. Cork at that time. It is here, and in Waterford, where the family has been traditionally located for centuries. The spelling of Mogher,
which is given as a variant spelling of Moher, at least at times, was a principal name of Waterford, and found in Kilkenny in the same census."
THE FAMILIES OF COUNTY CORK, IRELAND
(Volume IV of the Book of Irish Families)
By: Michael C. O'Laughlin
ISBN: 0 940134 35 7
1996 Irish Genealogical Foundation, p.117
"MOHER (O'Mohir) A name sometimes found in the Cork/Waterford area. O'Mohir was given as a principal name of Cork in the 1659 census. (see also: The Book of Irish Families, great and small).Several
of the name are given in an 1851 census of the Union of Kilworth in Co. Cork."
O'LAUGHLIN'S COMPLETE BOOK OF IRISH FAMILY NAMES
by Michael O'Laughln
1986, p. 250
"Mogher C
PN Waterford, Kilkenny
O'Mohir C
PN Cork"
C = Census of 1695
PN = Principal Name in that County
FAMILY NAMES OF COUNTY CORK
by Diarmuid O Murchadha, 1985,
- There is no reference to the surname Moher nor any reasonable
variations of it.
THE SURNAMES OF IRELAND
by Edward MacLysaght
p.218
"Moher O Mochair (mochar, a place overgrown with brushwood). From the earliest records up to modern times this name is almost exclusively of West Waterford and East Cork. A few families of
the name are found in Co.Clare. MIF 115".
MORE IRISH FAMILIES
by Edward MacLysaght
p.115
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MACBAIN'S DICTIONARY Section 17:
"Whelan, along with its common variant Phelan, comes from the Irish O'Faolain, from a diminutive of faol, `wolf'. Taken together, the two names come among the fifty most numerous in Ireland. The family
originated in the ancient kingdom of Decies, part of the modern county of Waterford, where they were rulers up to the Norman invasion. From this centre the surname has now spread to the adjoining counties
of Kilkenny, Cork, Wexford and further north, Carlow. It is also to be found throughout the country, however. The best known modern bearer of the name was Sean o Faolain, the novelist and short story
writer, whose writing career spanned six decades. His family name was originally Whelan. His daughter Julia is also a distinguished novelist. faol , faolchu a wolf, so Irish, Early Irish fáel, faelchú,
Welsh gweilgi, the sea ("wild dog"), *vailos; Armenian gail. "
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