Update
Show Summary Details

Page of

PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).

date: 14 December 2024

Irish and Scottish Gaelic Family Names 

Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names
Author(s):
Kay MuhrKay Muhr

The Gaelic language was spoken throughout Ireland from at least the 1st century ad. Written literature from the 5th century onward shows little evidence of earlier Celtic and pre-Celtic languages, although early placenames confirm that these existed. British Celtic, the language branch from which modern Welsh developed, was closely related.... ...

Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.

Please subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code.

For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us.