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The Doyle surname comes from the Gaelic name O Dubhghail, which means son ("O") of the dark ("dubh") stranger ("ghall"). The Doyles in Ireland are mainly found in Wexford, Wicklow, Waterford and Carlow.
Resources
- Doyle at House of Names
- Doyle at the Surname Database
- Doyle at Irish Central
- Doyle on the Ancestry.co.uk forums
- The Doyle Clan, for descendants of Daniel Doyle and Anne Carbery of County Westmeath (1800s).
- Doyle surname project at Family Tree DNA
- County Wexford project at Family Tree DNA
Notable Doyles
See: Doyle on Wikipedia
- Adrian Malcolm Doyle (1910-1970)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- Charles Altamont Doyle (1832-1893)
- James William Edmund Doyle (1822-1892)
- Jean Lena Annette Doyle (1912-1997)
- John Doyle (1797-1868)
- Martin Doyle (1891-1940)
- Richard Doyle (1824-1883)