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Updated February 19, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : from the Norman habitational name de Cashel, from Cassel in northern France, and so an Irish form of the English name Cassell.
  • Irish : (County Clare) Anglicization of Gaelic Ó Maolchaisil ‘descendant of the chief of Cashel’.

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