The surname is a variant of two Irish surnames: "Ó Murchadha"/"Ó Murchadh" (descendant of "Murchadh"), and "Mac Murchaidh"/"
Mac Murchadh" (son of "Murchadh")[1] derived from the Irish
personal name "Murchadh", which meant sea-warrior or sea-battler[2] (muir meaning sea and cath meaning battle).[3]
According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Murphys were one of the chiefly families of the
Uí Ceinnselaig who in turn were a tribe from the
Dumnonii or
Laigin who were the third wave of
Celts to settle in
Ireland during the first century
BC.[4] The O'Murphys as one of the chiefly families of the Uí Ceinnselaig is supported by
John O'Hart in his 1892 Irish Pedigrees; or, The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation.[5]
Murchadh is reported to have been gripped with a boiling awful rage, an extreme elevation and greatness of spirit and intellect when he joined the middle of the action and prepared to assail the foreign invaders, the Danes, after they had repulsed the
Dal gCais. A gallantry and championship bird rose inside him and fluttered above his head and on his breath.[6]
In modern
Irish, "Ó Murchú" or Mac Murchú rather than Mac/Ó Murchadha", is used.
^Brewer, Paul (2002). Ireland: History, People, Culture. Running Press. p. 351.
ISBN0-7624-1269-0.
^MacLysaght, Edward (1991). The Surnames of Ireland. Irish Academic Press. p. 221.
ISBN978-0-7165-2366-6.
^Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 352, 406,
ISBN978-0-19-861060-1
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The surname is a variant of two Irish surnames: "Ó Murchadha"/"Ó Murchadh" (descendant of "Murchadh"), and "Mac Murchaidh"/"
Mac Murchadh" (son of "Murchadh")[1] derived from the Irish
personal name "Murchadh", which meant sea-warrior or sea-battler[2] (muir meaning sea and cath meaning battle).[3]
According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Murphys were one of the chiefly families of the
Uí Ceinnselaig who in turn were a tribe from the
Dumnonii or
Laigin who were the third wave of
Celts to settle in
Ireland during the first century
BC.[4] The O'Murphys as one of the chiefly families of the Uí Ceinnselaig is supported by
John O'Hart in his 1892 Irish Pedigrees; or, The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation.[5]
Murchadh is reported to have been gripped with a boiling awful rage, an extreme elevation and greatness of spirit and intellect when he joined the middle of the action and prepared to assail the foreign invaders, the Danes, after they had repulsed the
Dal gCais. A gallantry and championship bird rose inside him and fluttered above his head and on his breath.[6]
In modern
Irish, "Ó Murchú" or Mac Murchú rather than Mac/Ó Murchadha", is used.
^Brewer, Paul (2002). Ireland: History, People, Culture. Running Press. p. 351.
ISBN0-7624-1269-0.
^MacLysaght, Edward (1991). The Surnames of Ireland. Irish Academic Press. p. 221.
ISBN978-0-7165-2366-6.
^Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 352, 406,
ISBN978-0-19-861060-1
This page lists people with the
surnameMurphy. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.