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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (brought to Ireland by Normans from Pembrokeshire) : habitational name from a place in Pembrokeshire named with Middle English atten angle ‘at the angle’, i.e. ‘dweller in the nook’.
  • Gilbert de Angulo was a Norman baron, a follower of Strongbow, who came to Ireland in the 12th century. Many of his linear male descendants bear the surnames Nagle or Neagle, and members of the family held estates in County Cork and in Connacht. In Connacht they adopted the Gaelic surname Mac Oisdealbhaigh (see <xref>Costello</xref>).