Whooley Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Whooley Name Origin



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Origin of the Name Whooley



The origin of the name Whooley was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Variants of the Irish name Hooley include Whooley, Wholey, Houley, Holey, Hoolie and many others. These names are anglicized forms of the Gaelic O'hUallaigh sept that was located in Connaught and Munster. A different sept of O'hUallachain was located in County Clare and parts of Leinster.
A sept or clan is a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. Irish septs and clans that are related often belong to even larger groups, sometimes called tribes.
Still other families of the name are from County Cork in the very south of Ireland where some O'Driscoll families near Clonakilty assumed the name Whooley. A very early bearer of the name was O'Houlig who was recorded in the 'Fiant Litterae Patentes' of County Cork in the year 1581. The root of these names is the Gaelic word 'uallach', meaning 'boastful'. When Gaelic names were anglicized during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were often changed to Anglo equivalents that sounded most like their original Gaelic name.
The Whooley coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all Whooley descendants.
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