This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McGurl/McGirl/McGuirl Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YWC.2ACI/488.493.3281.1 Message Board Post: Hi, I'm also looking in McGurl /McGirl etc, though my family are from parish of Cloonclare and can go back quite a ways with information on them, there is a Chris McGurl here in Brisbane who comes from Drumshambo....you may be able to contact him through the Queensland Irish Association. My mother's maiden name is McGurl (she has had a few hiccups with spelling of name! McGirl on one document, McGurl on another, but we found my grandfather (her father) listed under spelling McGuirl! Am willing to correspond. Teresa