DALLEY

DALLY, DALEY, DALY: (i) Richard Daly 1275 RH (K); Richard Dally 1293 MPleas (Hu); Richard Daly 1392 CtH; John Daley, Albert Dally 1642 PrD. Perhaps from Ailly (Eure, Meuse, Somme), or from Dally Fm in Forest Row (Sx).
(ii) Ir Daly is from Ó Dálaigh, from Dáil 'assembly'. (7)

DALY: This surname is among the thirty commonest in Ireland, it is most heavily distributed in Munster and then in Leinster with about half the number in that province living in Ulster and in Connacht. The Ó Dálaigh sept had its territory in Co. Westmeath in the barony of Magheradernon which now forms part of the barony of Moyashel and Magheradernon. Branches of the sept established themselves in other parts of the country, notably in Co. Galway, Co. Clare, Co. Cavan and Co.Cork where they flourished and multiplied, accounting for the numerious Daly descendants to be found today - about 15-17,000 in Ireland, and many thousands more in Britian, Canada, the United States of America, and other countdries of the Irish diaspora. There are a few O'Daly families in Ireland who have reassumed the prefixf O' as the returns of the Registrar of Births in the last century only show this surname in use without its prefix. (5)

Researching:  Victoria M. Dalley  m. 1908 Newtown  NSW
                        John William Askew b. 1881 Bega  NSW