| Clare County Library | Clare
Genealogy |
| Some Historical Notes on the Guerin Surname in Co. Clare by Pat Guerin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Name: Spelling Variants
& Their Distribution Nationally: Geographical Distribution
Geographically the name variants seem to be concentrated in four main groupings of the Civil Registration Districts:
There seems to be an uncanny coincidence in the way these geographical pockets of the name echo the areas mentioned in Ms GO545, below, under Elizabethan land grants (1593-1601) for the Gaelic names O’Geirine, O’Geran, O’Gerane, O’Gyeran. |
| The Geographical Distribution of Variants of One Name Taken from Civil Register of Deaths in Ireland (1890 - 1899). No. of individuals : = 192. Names in the plural are treated as singular e.g. Gearns/Gearn. |
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| Civil Registration District |
Gar- |
Gear- |
Geer- |
Ger- |
Gie |
Gir- |
Guer- |
Guir- |
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| an |
in |
an |
en |
in |
n |
on |
an |
in |
an |
ane |
en |
in |
ine |
on |
ran |
an |
in |
on |
an |
in |
n |
on |
an |
en |
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| <======= 15% =========> |
<========== 21% ==========> |
<===== 60% ======> |
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| 3 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
6 |
12 |
1 |
1 |
32 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
108 |
1 |
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| Glenties M'hamilton Sligo |
4 2 1 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
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| Castlebar Swinford Mt. Bellew |
1 1 |
1 |
1 |
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| Birr Portumna Ballinasloe |
1 1 |
1 |
1 |
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| Loughrea Gort Subtotal Scariff |
1 (12) 5 |
` |
3 |
1 2 |
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| Tulla Ennis Corrofin |
5 5 2 |
1 |
4 5 2 |
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| Kilrush Ennistimon Subtotal Nenagh |
3 3 (23)4 |
2 |
3 3 2 |
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| Borrisokane Limerick Glin |
1 30 2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
28 1 |
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| Newcastle W. Rathkeale Croom |
2 3 |
2 |
2 1 |
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| Kilmallock Tipperary Subtotal |
4 3 (49) |
1 |
3 3 |
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| Thurles Clogheen Clonmel |
1 1 2 |
1 2 |
1 |
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| Waterford New Ross Wexford Subtotal Lismore |
1 (5) 1 |
1 |
1 |
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| Dungarvan Youghal Cork |
1 2 5 |
1 1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
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| Fermoy Mitchelstown Mallow |
7 1 3 |
1 |
6 1 |
3 |
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| Millstreet Kanturk Bantry Subtotal |
6 4 (30) |
1 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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| Listowel Tralee Killarney |
12 6 36 |
1 1 |
1 |
1 |
2 14 |
1 1 |
1 |
9 3 19 |
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| Cahirsiveen Dingle Subtotal Athy |
(54)
2 |
2 |
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| Baltinglass Dublin Nth. Dublin Sth. |
2 2 4 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 2 |
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| Rathdown Kells Drogheda Belfast Subtotal |
2 7 (19) |
1 2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
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