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Ó Longaigh · 'descendant of Longach' (derivative of long, 'a ship, a camp')
Woulfe (1923) prints Long under Ó Longaigh, the name of an old family still numerous in Cork, Kerry and Limerick. He also prints it under the Norman de Long (le Lung, 'the long', one of remarkably tall stature), under Ó Longáin (in brackets) and under Fada, so no single origin applies to every bearer. In 1890, 46 of the 91 Long birth entries in Ireland were in Munster.
Woulfe: (1) Ó Longaigh, 'descendant of Longach', an old family 'still numerous in Cork, Kerry and Limerick'; (2) de Long, Norman 'le Lung', which 'cannot now be easily distinguished from the many Irish surnames that have been anglicised Long'; (3) Fada, 'tall, long', a descriptive epithet, 'very rare'. He prints (Long) in brackets under Ó Longáin.[1][2][3][4]
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Woulfe gives Ó Longaigh as 'descendant of Longach', a derivative of long, 'a ship, a camp'. He also prints Long as Norman 'le Lung', 'the long', one of remarkably tall stature, and under Fada, the Irish for 'tall, long', a descriptive epithet.[1][3][4]
Woulfe prints both. Ó Longaigh is the name of an old family still numerous in Cork, Kerry and Limerick. De Long is Norman and came into Ireland about the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion; he says it cannot now be easily distinguished from the many Irish surnames anglicised Long, so no single origin applies to every bearer.[1][3]
Woulfe says Ó Longaigh is still numerous in Cork, Kerry and Limerick. Matheson's 1890 birth index lists 91 Long entries, 46 of them in Munster, with Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Kerry and Donegal as the counties in which it was principally found.[1][5]
Woulfe prints (Long) in brackets in the list of forms under Ó Longáin. He gives Ó Longáin as the name of an Ulster family who were anciently chiefs of West Ui Breasail, in Co. Armagh, and of an ecclesiastical family who were erenaghs of Ardpatrick, in Co. Limerick, and Patrician stewards of Munster.[2]
Note: Matheson's 1890 figures for a surname include its spelling varieties (Matheson, Table Explanation).
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