O Boran - Boyd
O Boran or O Burrane - Irish / Ua Bodhrain - bodhar / deaf. A Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of Thomond / Tuaiscert Mhumhain / Northern Munster, and nearby in the west of Co. Tipperary in the north - east of Ormond / Aur Mhumhain / North Eastern Munster.
O Boylan or O Boyland / Ui Baoigheallain. Important Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Siol Daim Argait (Ui Cremthainn) Clann Fearghaile Sept / Family branch, who were kinsmen to the Mac Cuskelly / Mac Cuskley / Mac Cuskert / Mac Cushelly / Mac Quiskelly / Mac Quoskly / Mheic Giolla Coisgle. Ancestors: 95.Cormac, 94.Cairpre Dam Argait, 93.Eochu / Echach, 92.Criffan / Crimthainn Lethan, 91.Fiacc, 90.Daig Duirn, 89.Rochadh, 88.Murray / Muireadach Colla Da Crioch / Focrith - of the Two Countries, 87.Eochy / Echu Doimhlen, *86. Cairpre Liffeachair the 117th King of Tara / Ireland.
Borlase -
Borough -
Borris. Used as a variant for Burris or Burrowes, which see.
Borrowes or Borroughs - See Burrowes.
Bostock. English toponymic origins in
Ireland in the 16th Century AD. Also known as Bastick in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster.
Bothwell. Scottish origins from Lanarkshire, and have been in the east of the
Ulster Province since the early 17th Century AD after the confiscation of the 3,500,00 acres of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn territories there, and the foreign non - Catholic plantations there. Previously known in Scotland as Boduel, with the variant Bodell also used in Ulster.
Boucher or Bosscher / Buiseir (butcher).In Ireland since the 13th Century AD, and were in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster. Now in Co. Cork and Co. Waterford in the Munster Province with Busher and Bouchier used as variants.
Boughan. See Bohan.
Boughla or Bouhilly. See Buckley.
Bourchier. Used as a synonym for Boucher, which see.
Bourgh -
Bourk or Bourke / Mac William. Anglo Norman origins who were English Lords in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province. English Barons of Castle Connell in Co. Clare in the north - west of Thomond / Northern Munster. See also Burke.
Bourne - They have been in Ireland since the 16th Century AD in Co. Dublin and Co. Kildare in Southern Leinster, with some in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province changed to Burns. Some also known as Byron and Byrne elsewhere.
Bovaird. French origins in Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province.
Bovenizer. German Palatine origins in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of Thomond / Northern Munster also known as Boonizer and Neazer.
Bowdell -
Bowden. See Boden.
Bowdern or Bowdren / de Budrain who may be of Anglo Norman toponymic origins / de Boderan who were in Co. Waterford in the south - east of Ormond / North Eastern Munster.
Bowe. See - Bogue.
O Bowen. Heberian Dal gCais Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Clare in Tuaisceart Mhumhain / Thomond / Northern Munster. Ancestors: 104.Cosgrave / Coscrach, 103.Lorcan, 102.Lachtna, 101.Corc, 100.Anluan, 99.Mahon, 98.Turlough ancestor of the Ui Turlough Sept, 97.Cathal, 96.Aodh Caomh the King of Munster, 95.Conall, 94.Eochy / Eochaidh Baill Dearg, 93.Cairthenn Fionn Oge Mor, 92.Blood / Blod (Ui Bloid), 91.Cas the King of Thomond. (Dal gCais).
Bowen / ap Owen. Welsh origins from Bowenscourt in Co. Cork in Desmond / Southern Munster after arriving with the Oliver Cromwell Invasion.
O Bowen. Heberian Ciannachta Sept who had their territory in Co. Laois in the mid - west of Southern Leinster in the 16th Century AD and was also used by the O Bohanes, and the Norman Bohuns, which see.
Bower. Used as a synonym for Mac Cullagh, which see in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province and as Boar, which see.
Bowes or Bowie. See Bogue.
Bowler / Boighleir (maker of bowls were in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster.
Bowler. At Ballybowler in Co. Kerry in the south - west of Desmond / Southern Munster, where it is used as a variant for Fougheller who anglicized as Fuller and Fowler, which see, who may be from the French / le Oiseleur.
Bowles or Boles. See Boal.
Bowman. Used as a variant for Beaumont, which see, in the north of the Ulster Province.
Bowman. German Palatine origins in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of Thomond / Northern Munster.
Bowyer / bowyere (maker of bows) English origins in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster since 1644 AD and also in Co. Longford and Co. Westmeath in the west of Northern Leinster.
Boyce / bois. Anglo Norman origins -
Boyce. Used by the O Bogue - Irish / Ua Buadhaigh in Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province and the western region to anglicize their name.
Boycott. English toponymic origins. (Descended originally from Captain Boycott in Ireland who gave his name to that particular activity among the oppressed tenants of the Land Lords.
De Boyd / de Bute. Norman - Scottish origins originally from Bute in the Firth of Clyde. Gaelic Boid who held territory in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province and Co. Down in the south - east of Ulster.
Boyd. Manx origins originating from a similar name to Mac Elwee.
Boyd / buidhe (of the yellow hair) French Scottish origins who were a branch of the Stuarts descended from Robert Stewart.
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