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CURRELL Family History

Originally recorded as both MacCarroll and O'Carroll, this ancient and long-established surname, now usually recorded as Carroll, Currell, and Kirrell is Gaelic. If so it originates from the ancient surnames Mac Cearbhaill or O'Cearbhaill. Both Mac and O' have similar meanings of relationship, although arguably Mac refers only to "son of" and O' only to "descendant of", plus in this case the personal name "Cearbhall." This was possibly a byname for a butcher or a fierce warrior, deriving from the word "cearbh", meaning to hack! There were two distincts septs of MacCarroll and no less than six of O'Carroll, in Ireland, but today they are largely intermixed in the counties of Kerry, Offaly, Monaghan, Tipperary, Leitrim and Louth.