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Ross Wiley (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 11:21 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

Hey people. I don't know if this is the place, but I've no where else to go. I've been searching for my name in Irish for at least the past year (not continuously). I've tried other forums, Irish name sites, my Irish teachers and stuff like that. The name I need in Irish is Wiley. I've found that Ross as Gaeilge is Ros, but if anyone knows what Wiley is, I'd be very grateful.
Go raibh maith agaibh.

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Domhnaillín_breac_na_dtruslóg
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Registered: 04-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 - 11:10 am:   Small TextLarge TextEdit Post Print Post

I happen to have with me a copy of Edward MacLysaght's The surnames of Ireland (New York, 1969). Here's what he has to say about the surname Wiley/Wylie:
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An English toponymic which came to Ireland at the time of the Plantation of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century and is now numerous, especially in Co. Antrim. There are some families of the name in Co. Clare who use the form Ó hUallaigh in Irish: they may be of different origin.


In his Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall (Dublin, 1923), Patrick Woulfe has this to say about the name Ó hUallaigh (which he anglicises as "Howley", "O'Howley", and "O'Howlig": "des[cendent] of Uallach (proud); apparently a var[iant] of Ó hUallacháin, q.v. See also Ó Fuallaigh." For Ó Fuallaigh, he gives the same derivation ("des. of Uallach (proud)") and notes the anglicised forms as "O'Fowley", "Whooley", "Wholey", "Wholy". Ó hUallacháin is, of course, the Irish form of the very common surname "(O')Houlihan".

Still, despite its apparent independent origins, Ó hUallaigh looks like your best bet for an Irish form corresponding to "Wiley".



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