Woodcock - Wyse
Woodcock. Originally Woodcot English toponymic origins in Co. Cork in Southern Munster early on, and later on some also came with the Oliver Cromwell massacres and were then in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster and are now mostly in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster.
Woodhouse -
Woodlock or Woodlocke. English origins in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province and then in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster and in the south of there in the 13th Century AD.
Mac Woodman - Irish / Mheic Giolla Coille -
Woodman / le Wodeman. French occupational origins in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster since the 14th Century AD.
Woods of Co. Longford. Irish / Mheic Concaille, Gaelic Milesian Irian Conmaicne Magh Rein Muintir Anghaile Sept / Family branch of the O Farrells / O Ferralls / Ui Fearghail who had their territory at Annually in Co. Longford in the north - east of Northern Leinster. Especially see Mac Concaille.
Woods of Co. Armagh. Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn Colla da Crioch Airthir Ui Niallain Clann Cernaich Sept / Family branch, who had their territory at Oneilland East and West in Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province. Especially see Mac Conkeel.
Woods . Irish / coille / coillte (woods). Various Septs anglicized as, See Mac Ilhoyle, Mac Enhill, Quilty, Quill, Quilly and Kilmet. See also Cox / Mac Ilhoyle / Coyle / Irish / Mheic Giolla Comhghaill (Descended from a devotee of St. Comgall) in Co. Donegal and Co. Monaghan in the Ulster Province. Mac Quilly / Magilly - Irish / Mheic an Choiligh (Descended from a son of the cock) in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province. Mac Elhone - Irish / Mheic Giolla Chomgain (Descended from a son of a devotee St. Comhgan) in Co. Tyrone in Central Ulster. Quilty - Irish / Mheic Caoilte in the Munster Province (Descended from a son of the hound of the woods) Mac Enhill - Irish / Mheic Conchoille at Omagh in Co. Tyrone in Central Ulster.
Woods. English origins -
Woodward -
O Woolahan or O Wolohan. Used as variants for O Holohan, which see, in Co. Kilkenny and Co. Wicklow in the south of Southern Leinster.
Wooley. Gaelicized as a Bhula. Used as a synonym for Woulfe, which see.
Woolhare. See Wilhair.
Woolseley. English toponymic origins from Staffordshire and were in the Ulster Province in the early 17th Century AD after the English confiscation of the 3,500,000 acres of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories there and the foreign non - Catholic plantations there. (Not connected to Wolsey).
Worfop or Worsop -
Worth / werdh (homestead). English locative origins in the Leinster Province and the Munster Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries AD. (Not connected to Mac Worth, which is a variant of Mackworth).
Wotton -
Woulfe / de Bhulb. Norman origins in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province and in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster early on. See also Nix and Wooley.
Wrafter. See Rafter.
Wray. Used as a synonym for Rea and Mac Crea, which see.
Wray. English origins in the Ulster Province during the reign of Elizabeth 1st and are now in Co. Derry and nearby in Co. Donegal in Northern Ulster.
Wrenn. English name used as a synonym for Ring and Rynne, which see.
Wright / Kincart, which see. Irish / Mheic an Cheairt / ceart (right). Used as a synonym in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province.
Wright. English origins in the Ulster Province and in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster.
Wrinne or Wrynn. Used as a variant for Rinn in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht.
Wrixon. Originally Wrightson English origins in Co. Cork in Southern Ireland since the end of the 17th Century AD.
Wrythe -
Wycombe or Wycomb or Wicomb or Wicombe. See Wickham.
Mac Wyer. Used by the Irish Sept / Family branch of the Mheic an Mhaoir who had their territory in Co. Westmeath in the south - west of Northern Leinster to anglicize their name. Also confused with Weir, which see, there.
O Wylie or O Wiley - Irish / Ui hUallaigh. A Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in Co. Clare in the north - west of Thomond / Tuaisceart Mhumhain / Northern Munster.
Wylie or Wiley. English toponymic origins in Ireland during the English confiscation of the 3,500,000 acres of the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories and the foreign non - Catholic plantations of Ulster Province at he beginning of the 17th Century AD and now mostly found in Co. Antrim in the north - east of Ulster.
Wymes. See Weymes.
Wyndham. Used as a synonym for Mulgeehy, which see. Also see Wynne.
Wynne. Akin to the Welsh name Gwynn. Used by many Irish Septs / Family branches with the sound gee in their name such as gaoithe (of wind). Mac Gee, Mac Geehan, Mulgeehy, which see. Also by the Irish Sept of Mag Aodha, which was confused with gaoth (wind).
Wyse or Wyes. Anglo - Norman origins. Gaelicized as de Uidheas, but should have been le Uidheas (the wise man) as they came with the Anglo - Norman Invasion and were in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province.