Drogh, Drogha

Rev Patrick Woulfe
1923

DROGH, DROGHA—VIIIDrogh, Drou, Drough, Drew; 'son of Drogo,' (a personal name of Frankish origin borne, among others, by a son of Charlemagne and brought into England by the Normans, where Drogo of Bevrere, a follower of the Conqueror, obtained a grant of Holderness in Yorkshire); an old surname in Westmeath and Offaly. Later forms are Drú and Driú, which see.

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