Here is a website with Irish naming patterns: http://ahd.exis.net/monaghan/irish-names-naming.htm and another: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlgal/index4.htm Just google and you mind find more info. My family stopped it in the 1930's. The first 3 children followed the pattern somewhat and then the remaining 5 were names they liked and none were named for other members of the previous generations. Karin