If u are they're lookin for you in Co. Donegal this weekend. Dont know any Gallaghers myself,but there ya go.

http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/DN/free/28973965006716.php

If u are they're lookin for you in Co. Donegal this weekend. Dont know any Gallaghers myself,but there ya go.

http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/DN/free/28973965006716.php
i know several, but none of them are related to each other:@@:

Well send em to Letterkenny for Sunday,theyll find they are all related,the name is originally from up round the islands there,those people are very very close,know what a mean hehe

When are they gonna have a Kirwan/Kerwin/Kirwin gathering? It would be in Co. Galway, or so I've been told. My other Irish family names (although these are all not really related to me since my dad was adopted) are Moriarty and O'Callahan.

Kerwin dosent sound Irishie,tho either does Clinton.Galway,bring plenty of Euros.

From A List of the Ancient Families of Galway (http://www.galway.net/galwayguide/history/hardiman/chapter1/ancient_families.html)
Kirwan

This name and family are Irish, and the heralds have gone very far back indeed to deduce their origin. They tell us, that Maoldabhreac, son of Fiobhrann, son of Finghin, descended from Heremon, second son of Milesius, was father of Ciorrovan or Kirrovan, from whom the Kirwans are descended. [q2] They appear to have settled in Galway, in the reign of Henry VI. about which time, the name first occurs in its modern form, mention being then made of William Kirwan and his children. Some think them much more ancient, supposing them to be the family of Kirwicke, already enumerated amongst the more early inhabitants of the town; [r2] and this supposition is very probable, as the orthography of the name has undergone various changes, viz. O'Quirivan, Kyrvan, Kerovan, Kirevane, &c. but it is now generally written Kirwan. To this name and family, Ireland is indebted for two individuals, of the first order of genius, men whose splendid talents have raised their native country to a most elevated point in the scale of literature and science; by those the reader may easily anticipate, are meant the celebrated Dean Kirwan, and his distinguished relative and friend, the late Richard Kirwan, Esq. of Cregg?; the former, acknowledged to have been the first christian orator of his day, and the latter, one of the greatest philosophers of the age in which he lived. Biographical accounts of these eminent men, will be found in another part of this volume. The families of Blindwell, Castlehackett, [s2] Cregg, [t2] Gardenfield, Glan, Hillsbrook and Woodfield?, in the County of Galway; and Dalgin?, in the County of Mayo, are the principal of the name.

Arms. Argent, a chevron, between three shelldrakes, sable, beaked and legged, gules. Crest. A shelldrake close, sable, beaked and legged. gules. Motto. J' aim mon Dieu, mon Roi et mon Pais. [u2]

EDIT: Here is another version of the story.
Kerwin, Kirwan and others are commonly accepted as Irish surnames that described the swarthy man, or black-haired man. Spellings are varied because none of these names were Anglo to begin with, but were actually the Gaelic name O Ciardhubhain , which means "descendant of Ciardhubhan" whose name was composed of the elements ciar = dark + dubh = black + the diminutive suffix -an. When the name was Anglicized, it took a number of versions: while Kirwan is the most commonly found, these also derived from O Ciardhubhain -- Kirwen, Kirwin, Kirivan, Kierevan, Kiervan, O'Kirwan, O'Kerevan, O'Kerrywane . Since most of the population was illiterate, spellings were often the whim of whoever recorded the name at a particular point in time, and whether that spelling managed to survive until recorded on deeds or similarly abstracted materials.

Planters then eh haha

Planters then eh haha
I dunno. That's my dad's adoptive father's side. His mother's maiden name is Moriarty, and her mother was Pierce, and her father's mother was O'Callahan. Her family were from County Kerry.

I wish I knew about my dad's biological family though. All I know is that one of his parents was all Irish and one was an Irish/Italian mix. And that they were Catholic, since they left him with the nuns.

No argueing those names,they're all Celtic clan names.
I'll PM you mine cause I dont want it on the boards, you can check it out if ya ever get bored.

Moriarty
Any relation to Dean?

Any relation to Dean?
I have no idea. :confused:

Any relation to Dean?
Or James?