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Waddell /

Wadding / Uaidin. Anglo - Norman origins in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster and one of their branches who were in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province produced many ecclesiastics including Luke Wadding. Wadden was also used as a variant.

 

Mac Waddock. Used as a variant for Vaddock, which see.

Mac Wade. Used as a variant for Mac Quaid, which see, in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster and nearby in Southern Ulster.

Wade / waddan (to go). English origins -  

 

Wade (ford). Norman French origins in Ireland since the 13th Century AD.

 

Wafer or Weafer or Waffer / waferer (maker of Eucharistic wafers, not a weaver) English origins in Ireland since the 13th Century AD. In the 16th Century AD they were in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster.

 

Wagh. See Waugh.

 

Wake -

 

Wakefeild -

 

Wakley  or Wakely -

 

Walcot -

 

Waldron / Waleron. English origins -

 

Waldron. Gaelicized as Mheic Bhaildrin and used by a branch of the Costellos, which see,  in the Connacht Province.

 

Waldron. Gaelicized as Mac Bhalronta and used by the Wellesleys, which see, to Hibernicize their name. De Bhaldraithe now used.

 

Wale -

 

Waliker -

Walker (fuller). English origins who were recent arrivals they were in the north - east of the Ulster Province and in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster.

 

Wall or Wale / de Valle. Gaelicized as de Bhal. Anglo - Norman origins. John de Valle was a Knight at Castleinch / Inchiologan in 1247 AD. Early on they were between Co. Limerick and Co. Waterford in Northern Munster and nearby in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory and  Co. Carlow in Southern Leinster. One of their branches also settled in the Connacht Province who were known there as Faltagh, which see, and were treated as an Irish Sept with a recognized Chief / An Faltach was also used by the head of the branch in Co. Limerick. They became "More Irish then the Irish."

 

Wallace. Used as a synonym for Walsh, which see

 

Wallace / le Waleis (the Welshman). A Clan who came from Strathclyde who were originally Celtic Britons in Scotland.

 

Waller- see Mac Goldrick.

 

Waller. English origins who had their Estates in Co. Meath in Northern Leinster and were in Co. Limerick and Co. Tipperary in Northern Munster. Sir Hardress Waller was in Co. Limerick in the 17th Century AD.

 

Wallingford -

 

Wallis or Wallys or Walldys. Used as a variant for Wallace, which see.

 

Walpole. English toponymic origins from Norfolk and in the 18th Century AD and were in Co. Laois in the mid - north - west of Southern Leinster. In the 19th Century AD they were in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht.

Walsh or Walshe / Breathneach (Stranger from Wales) Brython Welsh origins. In 1169 AD Walynus arrived into Tirawley in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province who was also a brother to Barrett the ancestor of the Barretts, which see, in the same area. In 1172 AD Haylen Brenach also arrived into  Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster. As Walsh they were recorded in the 13th Century in Ossory in Southern Leinster. Many unconnected families were also then in Co. Wicklow, Co. Kilkenny and Co. Westmeath in Southern Leinster and in Co. Cork, Co. Kerry, Co. Tipperary and Co Waterford in the Munster Province. Also anglicized as Brannagh and Brannick, which see. Welsh was also used as a name in Munster and Connacht.  

 

Walshingham -

 

Mac Walter. See Mac Qualter.

 

Walton. English toponymic origins in Ireland since the 13th Century AD.

 

Wand -

 

Wandesford or Wandford -

 

Warburton. English name used by Mongan a harper from Co. Tyrone in Central Ulster who was blind and whose son became the Church of England / Ireland Bishop of Limerick in 1806 AD and they were in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster.

 

Mac Ward - Irish / Mheic an Bhaird (Descended from a son of the bard - poet) Sodhan origins. A Sept / Family branch, who had their territory at Ballinsloe in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht. They were poets to the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine O Kelly Chieftains.

 

Mac Ward or Mac Award  Irish / Mheic an Bhaird. A Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province where they were poets to the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Ui Conaill O Donnells. One of their branches also became poets to the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain O Neills in Co. Tyrone in Central Ulster.

 

Mac Ward. A Sept / Family branch who had their territory in the kingdom of Ulaid in the Ulster Province.

 

Warden -

 

Ware. English origins in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster in the 16th Century AD. The family of Sir James Ware.

 

Ware. English origins in Co. Cork in Southern Munster in the 16th Century AD.

 

Waring. Originally Guarin then Warin. Norman French origins in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster in the 13th Century AD then in Co. Kilkenny  in the south - west of Southern Leinster and then later still in Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province.  Not connected to Warren, and Waringstown should actually be Warrenstown.

 

Warke. English origins in Co. Donegal and Co. Derry in the north of the Ulster Province since the Mid - 17th Century AD after the English confiscation of the 3,500,000 acres of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn "northern" U Niaill territories there and the foreign non - Catholic plantations there.

 

Warner. French English origins in Co. Cork in Southern Munster since mid - 17th Century AD.

 

Mac Warnock - Irish / Mheic Giolla Mhearnog (Descended from a devotee of St. Mearnog) Originally anglicized as Mac Gillavearnoge. A Sept / Family branch who had their territory in Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province. Cognate with, but not connected to the Scottish Mac Ilvernock.

 

Warren / de la Varenne. French toponymic origins in The English Pale in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster. Some branches became Gaelicized as Bharain and "More Irish then the Irish" nearby in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster.

 

Warren. Used as a synonym for Murnane, which see, in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province. Also see Waring.

 

Washington -

 

Wassold -

 

Waterhouse -

 

Waters. Used by the Irish Sept of the O Hiskeys, which see.

 

Waters. Used by the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Sept / Family branch of the O Whoriskey, which see. Especially see O Horish.

 

Waters. Used by the Irish Sept of the O Toorish, which see.

 

Waters / de Auters. Anglo - Norman origins in Co. Cork in Southern Munster in 1190 AD.

 

Waters. English origins. (From water and Walter).

 

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