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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Offaly and Kerry) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dulchaointigh ‘descendant of Dulchaointeach’, a byname composed of the elements dul ‘satirist’ + caointeach ‘plaintive’.

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