Family name origins & meanings
- Irish (Galway) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Clochartaigh ‘descendant of Clochartach’, a personal name, probably formed with cloch ‘stone’, Stone being an alternative Anglicization of the surname.
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