De Brugha

Rev Patrick Woulfe
1923

de BRUGHA—XIde Bury, Burewe, Bru, Bury, Burrows, Burrowes, etc., and indirectly Burgess; i.e., 'at the borough,' from residence therein; the English equivalent of the Norman de Burgo or Burke, being derived from the dative form of the Old English 'burg.'

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