"michael trowbridge" <b_sgun@magicohio.com> wrote..................... >List, >I have a 2nd great grandmother by the name of Catherine Mc Carl or >Mc Carroll. Her death certificate says she was born August 13, 1817 in >Ireland and died February 21, 1895 Gallia County, Ohio, USA. > >I am looking for what county or counties that her last name would appear >in Ireland. >Also if the name was a clan by itself or a sub clan. >Mike Trowbridge Looks like McCarl is a phonetic corruption of McCarroll. O Cearbhaill - O'Carroll or Carroll - Co Offaly and Tipperary - of Uibh Fhaili CARROLL (British). "Brave in fighting" (Irish). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chief Eile O'Carroll's Offical Clan Cian, Carroll, O'Carroll Webpage: http://www.thos.com/cian.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CARROLL One of the twenty five most common Irish surnames, Carroll comes, in the vast majority of cases, from the Irish O Cearbhaill, from Cearbhall, a very popular personal name thought to mean 'fierce in battle'. It is widespread today throughout the three southern provinces of Connacht, Leinster and Munster, reflecting the fact that it arose almost simultaneously as a separate surname in at least six different parts of Ireland. The most famous of these were the Ely O'carrolls of Uibh Fhaili, including modern Co Offaly as well as parts of Tipperary, who derived their name from Cearball, King of Ely, one of the leaders of the victorious native Irish army at the battle of Clontarf in 1014. Although their power was much reduced over the centuries in the continuing conflict with the Norman Butlers, they held on to their distinctive Gaelic customs and way of life until the start of the seventeenth century. ------------------------ O'Carrolls Castle at Kinnity (Birr) , King's County, no longer possessed by the O'Carrolls, and after a failed seige by them, was taken by General Preston in 1643 and held by him for the Confederate Catholics, until in 1650 when it was taken by Cromwell's son-in-law, Henry Ireton. ---------------------------- Births in 1890 by county: Carroll Leix 12 Carroll Offaly 12 Carroll Kildare 13 Carroll Louth 19 Carroll Kilkenny 25 Carroll Dublin 71 Enter carroll in my search box on my webpage. Several places with Carroll items there. If interested in the O'Carrolls of county Monaghan in ancient times, I can send you a large item from "The Monaghan Story". TRAYNOR'S Web Page. (Irish stuff) http://www.angelfire.com/my/tray