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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Scoireadh ‘descendant of Scoireadh’. Woulfe believes Ó Scoireadh and Ó Scurra (see Scarry) to be localized variants of the same name, while MacLysaght regards them as two different names.

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