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The ten most popular surnames below were estimated using statistics abstracted from the civil records of birth for the year 1890 as published in 1909 by Sir Robert Matheson in his Special Report on Surnames in Ireland.

1. Walsh (Breathnach)
Walsh is the fourth most numerous surname in Ireland and is also the most numerous surname in the adjoining county of Galway. The surname simply means ‘the Welsh person’ (in Gaelic ‘Breathnach’) and is Cambro-Norman in ...

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