O Patrick

O Patrick / Mulpatrick / Irish - Ui Maolphadraig - descended from a devotee of St. Patrick / A Sept - Family branch who had their territory in Co. Longford - North West Leinster.

Patrick / Used to abbreviate Fitz Patrick, which see.

Patrick / They were in Ireland in Medieval times.

Mac Patrick / Highland Scottish origins / A branch of the Clann Lamont.

Patten or Patton or Paton / See Peyton.

Patterson / Irish - Mheic Gilla Phadraig - descended from a son of the follower of St. Patrick / Also anglicized as Mac Phaidin, Patrick, Mac Fadden & Mac Padden, which see.

Patterson or Pattinson / Used as a synonym for Cussane, which see / casan - path who were in Co. Galway - Southern Connacht.

Patterson or Pattinson / Mac Phaidin - descended from a son of Patrick / Lowland Scottish origins / They were in Co. Down - South East Ulster.

Mac Partian /

Patton / English toponymic origins / No connection to Peyton - Patton, in Co. Donegal - North West Ulster.

Fitz Patrick / Mac Giolla Phadraig - descended from *114.Donnchadh - Donough a son of 113.Giolla Padraig - the servant of St. Patrick / A Heremonian Connla Sept - Family branch who were the Chiefs of Upper Ossory in Co. Kilkenny - Western Leinster who were originally also known as Gil Patrick, which is their correct Irish name / Due to their proximity to Dublin they came to use the French "fils" for son as expressed by the Normans as "fitz" instead / In the 10th Century they were the Kings of Ossory in their kingdom of Upper Ossory, which also took in parts of Co. Laois & Co. Kilkenny - Western Leinster / In the16th Century the leading Sept accepted the English title of Lord Baron of Upper Ossory from Henry VIII and became Protestant and this enabled them to hold onto most of their territory there until the 19th Century / They were descended initially from *60.Laoghaire "Lorc" the 68th King of Tara - Erinn through 77.Breasal “Breac” the father of, 78.Connla who inherited the south from him from the River Barrow to the sea / Later his descendant 87.Aonghus "Osruighe" became the direct ancestor of the aristocratic Gaelic Kings of Ossory who were also based on the original Fir Bolg tribe there / *78.Connla's brother, 78.Lughaidh - Lewy also became the ancestor of the Heremonian Cu Corb Kings of Leinster as his father also gave him the territory on the north side of the River Barrow from Drogheda in Co. Louth - North East Leinster down to Co. Wicklow - South East Leinster.*78.Connla.

Fitz Patrick / They were in Co. Cavan - Southern Ulster.

Gil Patrick / See Fitz Patrick and also Patterson.

Mac Paul / Used as a synonym for Mac Phail & Mac Fall, which see.

Pay / See Pey.

Payne / English origins / They were in Ireland in the 14th Century / There was a Paynestown in 5 Leinster regions and in Co. Tipperary - Northern Munster and they were later in Co. Dublin - Mid Eastern Leinster / Also see Pyne.

Payton / English toponymic origins but not in Co. Donegal - North West Ulster / See also Peyton.

Peacock / English origins / They were in Co. Meath - North East Leinster in the early 15th Century.

Mac Peake / Gaelic - Mheic Peice - peic - english - thickset man / They were in Co. Derry & Co. Tyrone - Ulster.

Peake / English origins /

Peard / pear - head / They were in Co. Cork - Southern Munster in the 17th Century / See also Peart.

Pearse / Phiarsaigh / See Pierce.

Pearson / Son of Piers / They were in Ireland in the 17th Century and were in Leinster in the 18th Century.

Peart / English origins / They were in Ireland in 1659 in Co. Kilkenny - Western Leinster / Later some also came from Newark - on - Trent in the 18th Century / May also be a variant of Perrot, which see.

Pedlow / pied de loup / French origins / Recent arrivals they were in Co. Armagh & Co. Antrim - Eastern Ulster.

Peebles / Scottish toponymic origins / Used as a synonym for Peoples, which see, in Ulster.

Peery / See Perry.

Pegnam / See Pagnam.

Pelly / French and English origins / They were in Co. Galway & Co. Roscommon - Southern Connacht in 1656 to where they were transplanted for being Catholic.

Pembroke / Welsh toponymic origins / They were in Ireland in Medieval times and in Co. Kerry - North West Munster & Co. Kilkenny - Western Leinster in the 17th Century.

Pender or Pendy or Pinder / Used to abbreviate Prendergast, which see.

Penn / They were in Co. Cork - Southern Munster.

Pennefather / penny father / English origins / They came into Ireland with the Cromwell Invasion and were among the landed Gentry in Leinster & Munster / Pennyfeather, Panfare etc are variants.

Penny / They were originally in Co. Dublin - Mid Eastern Leinster in 1296 / Those in Co. Cork - Southern Munster are recent arrivals.

Penrose / Quaker origins / Originally from Penrose in Cornwall and then to Yorkshire and later into Co. Waterford - North East Munster & Co. Wicklow - South East Leinster at the end of the 17th Century.

Pentheny or Pentony / de Repenteny / Norman French origins / They were in Co. Meath - North East Leinster in the 12th Century and were later also in Co. Louth & Co. Dublin / Penteny, etc were in use from the 14th Century on.

Peoples, or Deeney, which see / Irish - Ui Duibhne / Similar sounding to daoine - people.

De Peppard / Norman origins / they were in Co. Louth - North East Leinster in 1185 AD and in 1253 Roger de Pippart built a Castle at Ardee there / A branch was also in Co. Wexford - South East Leinster / Pepper also used as a synonym for it.

Pepper / They held Ballygarth Castle at Laytown in Co. Meath - North East Leinster for over 250 years.

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