County Tipperary Surnames and Places

When someone signs up for our weekly Letter from Ireland, we ask them for the Irish surnames in their family and the counties in Ireland their ancestor came from originally.

As a result, we now have about 25,000 entries on our list. The following names are ones we received from readers whose ancestors came from County Tipperary originally. As you look through the names, you will see old Irish Gaelic names, Norman names and later English and Scottish names that settled in this part of the country. You may also notice that some of these surnames are from other counties originally.

Is your County Tipperary surname among them?

Ahern, Aylward, Bannon, Barry, Beary, Blake, Bonney, Bowes, Brett, Britt, Browne, Brunnock, Bryan, Burgess,  Burke,

Cahir Castle, Butler and O’Brien

Butler, Cahill, Cain, Carden, Carey, Carney, Carroll, Charlton, Clancy, Cleary, Coady, Coffey, Colue, Corbett, Costelloe, Cotter, Coughlin, Crotty, Culleton, Cummings, Cummins,

The Rock of Cashel

Daley, Daly, Daven, Dempsey, Doherty, Donnelly, Donovan, Dwyer, Echlen, Eddington, Egan, Emerson, English,

Rock of Cashel Round Tower

Fannons, Fennessy, Field, Flynn, Fogarty ,Galligan, Gavin, Gaynor, Geaney, Giltinane, Gleason, Gleeson, Gorman, Grady,

Roscrea Castle, Butler

Hanley, Harrigan, Haslett, Hawkes, Hawkins, Hayes, Hennessy, Hogan, Holway, Horan, Houlihan, Hyde, Hyland, Jackson,

Ormond Castle, Butler, Carrick-on-Suir

Kane, Kay, Keefe, Kelleher, Kennedy, Kenney, Keogh, Kirwan, Lahy, Landers, Lanigan, Lewis, Lloyd, Lonergan, Long, Looby, Luby, Luttrell, Lynch, Lyons,

The Surname Hickey, Clonmel

Mackey, Madden, Maher, Mahoney, Mcloughney, McElliot, McEvoy, McGrath, Meagher, Meara, Moloney, Monahan, Mooney, Moran, Moyles, Mulcahy, Mullally, Nolan,

Poulakerry Tower House, Butler

Oakman, O’Bannon, O’Brien, O’Connor, O’Donnell, O’Dwyer, O’Gorman, O’Halloran, O’Mara, O’Meara, O’Neill, O’Sullivan,

Carrick-on-Suir, home of the Clancy Brothers singing group

Pendergrast, Pennefeather, Powell, Preston, Purcell, Purtill, Quinlan, Rockett, Roughan, Ryan,

Cahir Castle in winter, O’Brien and Butler

Shanahan, Shea, Shelley, Slattery, Smeltzer, Smith, Spillane, Stanley, Talbot, Tobin, Torpey, Tracy, Tucker, Tyrrell,

The Surname Kennedy – in Templemore

Vaughan, Walsh, Wellwood,

The Surname Ryan in Cashel

Clonmel, County Tipperary

Galtee Mór Mountain seen from Hore Abbey in Cashel

And thats the end of our list of County Tipperary surnames for now. Do feel free to leave a comment or ask a question in the section below.