Carleton Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Carleton Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Carleton

The Carleton family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Carleton is usually a variant form of the name Carolan which has a number of other variants including Carolane and Carlton. There are two distinct Gaelic septs in Ireland from which these names are derived. O'Caireallain was Chief of Clan Diarmada, from which comes the name of the parish of Clondermot in County Derry. O'Caireallain assumed the anglicized form of Carleton and Carlin as well as Carolan. The separate sept of O'Cearbhallain was also of Northern origin, being located chiefly in Cavan and Monaghan, from where they crossed into the Leinster County of Meath. The Mediaeval ecclesiastical records of the dioceses of Raphoe and Derry contain the names of many priests called O'Carolan, three of whom were Bishops of Derry in the thirteenth century.