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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (County Mayo) : shortened Americanized form of Mac Phiaraic ‘son of Piers or Peter’. The Piers in question is probably the 12th-century Norman baron Piers de Bermingham, founder of the McCorish family, of which this is a branch.

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