County Cork Surnames and places - Is your Irish surname on our list?

It’s the largest county in Ireland – as well as being the largest single source for all Irish emigration during the 19th century. Maybe your ancestors came from this Irish county?

Irish Surnames of County Cork – from our Readers

Each Sunday we send out a Letter from Ireland from a cottage in County Cork – to over 68,000 people of Irish descent all over the world (If you’d like to recieve a FREE weekly Letter from Ireland simply click here to subscribe).When we do this, we also ask readers to give us the Irish surnames in their family tree as well as the Irish counties they believe (or know) their ancestor came from.

A Cottage on Heir Island, West Cork.

Seeing as we live in County Cork ourselves, we have a great opportunity to pick up at the weekends and head along the hundreds of miles of glorious coastline (including our new coastal drive, the Wild Atlantic Way) – or to one of the many inland towns, villages or mountain ranges. We are surely spoiled for choice!

Annie Moore and her family, Cobh (Queenstown), County Cork.

Over the last 18 months we have taken some of the following photos on our travels – and as we go, we often link to the Irish surnames on our list. So, join us now as we travel around County Cork taking lots of pictures and sharing with you the many County Cork surnames.

County Cork Surnames.

As I was saying, 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.

Donovan Irish surname on the front of a bar

O’Donovan’s Hotel, Clonakilty, County Cork.

As a result, we now have about 8500 entries on our list. The following names are ones we received from readers whose ancestors came from County Cork 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 Cork surname among them?

Here we go (i’ve listed the surname alphabetically, with some nice pictorial breaks between them):

Abernathy Ahearn Aheren Ahern Allen Arundel Barker Barr Barrett Barron Barry Bartley Beatty Bergen Berry Bluitt Bolger Brady Brannelly Bransfield Brennan

Castledonovan, County Cork – Seat of the O’Donovans

Brickley Brislane Brogan Brooks Brophy Brown Browne Buckley Bulman Burdin Burke Byrd Byrnes

Former home of Sir Walter Raleigh, County Cork.

Cahill Cain Callaghan Callahan Callanan Camier Cantey Carey Carmody Carrigan Carroll Carter Case Casey Cashin Cashman Cassidy Cavanaugh Clancy Clarke Cleary Cleland Clifford Clifton

Blackrock Castle – just outside Cork City.

Coakley Coffee Coffey Colbert Coleman Collins Collumb Comerford Condon Connally Connell Connery Connolly Connor Connors Conroy Conway Coogan

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The ruins of Ballincollig Castle – Home of the Barretts.

Coppinger Corbett Corcoran Cork Corkery Corridan Costigan Cotter Cottom Coughlan Coughlin County Coyle Coyne Craddock Crawford Creeden Cremin Cronin Crossen Crowe Crowley Crowly Cullen Culliton Cummings Cunningham Curran Curtin Curtis Cushin

Statue of Michael Collins in Clonakilty – his birthplace.

Dabney Daly Daugherty Davis Delaney Deneen Denevan Dennehy Dennison Desmond Deveney Dineen Dinneen Doheny Donahoe Donahue Donavan Doney Donohue Donovan

Kissing the Blarney Stone at the top of Blarney Castle.

Dorgan Doyle Drew Driscoll Drummy Duffy Dugan Duggan Dunn Dunnigan Dwyer Dykes

On the Wild Atlantic Way – at the end of the Sheep’s Head Peninsula

Early Eckley Egan Ellis Ennis Enright Fane Farmer Farrell Fegan Ferdinand Ferrigan Finn Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Flaherty Flanagan Fleming Fletcher Foley Forrest Fox Freeman

Himself – taking a rest at the Upton Steam Rally.

Gaffney Gallagher Galligan Galvin Galway Garde Gaughan Geany Geary Gerrity Gibbons Gibson Gill Gilleran Gilman Glatt Glavin Goggin Green Greer Griffin Grogan

The colourful houses of Bandon, County Cork.

Haggerty Haines Haley Hallahan Haloran Haney Harley Harney Harrington Harris Hartigan Hartney Hawk Hawkes Hayes Healey Healy Heard Heffernan Hegarty Hennessey Hennessy Herlihy Hickey Hobbs Hogan Holland Holohan Horgan Hourihan Hourihane Howard Huey Hurley Irish

Gouganne Barra Oratory in the snows of winter.

Jeffers Jeffrey Jennings Joyce Joynt Kanaly Kearney Keefe Kelleher Kelley Kelly Kennedy Kenny Keohane Kieley Kiely Kiley King Kingston Kingstone Kirk

Cork City – Across the River Lee.

Lalley Lamey Land Landers Lane Lawless Leach Leahy Lee Leyhane Long Looney Lordan Lucey Luddy Lynch Lyons

Sulky Racing on Inchedoney Strand in West Cork.

MacAuliffe MacDonald Madden Maher Mahoney Mallon Malone Maloney Manning Mannix Marnell Martin

The McCarthy Towerhouse of Carrigaphooca – near Macroom.

McAninley McCall McCann McCarthy McCartney McCarty McCloskey McCormick McCotter McDermott McDevitt McGarry McGill McGinn McGinnis McGlynn McGourn McGrath McGraw McIntyre McKenzie McLaughlin McMahon

Walking among the stones – Kealkil Stone Circle, County Cork

Meehan Mehegan Mohally Molloy Moran Morey Morrissey Moynahan Mulcahy Mulchinaugh Mulchinock Mullarkey Mullen Mullins Munday Murphy Murray Nally Neely Neenan Newman Nicholson Noonan Nugent

Youghal, County Cork.

O’Brian O’Brien O’Bryan O’Callaghan O’Colmain O’Connell O’Conner O’Connor O’Cronin O’Donnell O’Donnovan O’Donoghue O’Donovan O’Driscoll O’Flaherty O’Flynn

Barryscourt Castle – built by the main Barry family, Carrigtwohill, County Cork.

O’Halloran O’Hearn O’Herrons O’Kane O’Keefe O’Keeffe O’Lalley O’Larkin O’Leary O’Mahony O’Malley O’Neil O’Neill O’Niell O’Rourke O’Shaughnessy O’Shea O’Sullivan O’Tuama

Three Castle Head – Stonghold of the O’Mahonys – near Mizen Head.

Parker Pension Phelan Phillips Philpott Pomeroy Power Powers Poythrus Price Purvis Quinlan Quinn Quirk Raymond Reardon Regan Riley Riordan Roach Roche Rogers Ryan Rylee

Desmond Castle – Kinsale, County Cork.

Saunders Savage Scanlan Scanlon Shea Shearin Sheehan Sheehy Shine Shinnick Simpson Sisk Slattery Smith Snee Somers Spillane Stanton Stapleton Steele Stewart Stone Sullivan Supple Sutton Sweeney Synge