This Irish Genealogy site offers the Irish descendant (from New York, Canada, UK, Australia...) the chance to trace their Irish family tree and search for their surname origins and the records of their Irish ancestor's birth, marriage or death.

What are the hundred principal surnames of Ireland? How do they compare with the commonest surnames of England, Wales and Scotland? What is the distribution of surnames among the different provinces and counties? The answers to these questions, together with much other fascinating information on Irish names, form the subject of two reports compiled a century ago by Sir Robert Matheson, the Registrar-General of Births, Marriages and Deaths for Ireland. Matheson based his facts on the population st...

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