Ó hOireachtaigh

Rev Patrick Woulfe
1923

Ó hOIREACHTAIGH—IO Heraghty, O Heyrity, O Heraght, Hearaghty, Heraghty, Heraty, (Harty), Erraught, Erought, (Geraghty, Harrington, O'Connor); 'descendant of Oireachtach' (holding or frequenting assemblies); the name of several distinct families, formerly located in Galway, Westmeath and Donegal; now most frequent in Donegal and Mayo; often disguised under the anglicised forms of Harty, Geraghty, Harrington, and even O'Connor. Nearly all the members of this family in the neighbourhood of Abbeyfeale have, for a peculiar local reason, now adopted the surname of O'Connor.

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