I am looking for relatives in Ireland with the last name of Crossan? Don't know anything about them. Crossan was my grandfather who died before I was born. Is this a popular Irish last Name?
2006-06-10 06:13:10 · 10 answers · asked by Clogged-Up 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Searched the Irish Telephone Directory by each county and found the following number of listings for the name Crossan:
Cavan - 24..............Clare -1
Donegal - 72...........Dublin - 24
Kildare -27..............Leitrim - 12
Longford - 3............Louth - 7
Mayo - 4..................Meath - 29
Monaghan - 12........Roscommon - 8
Sligo - 9...................West Meath - 3
Wexford - 1.............Wicklow - 27
So it looks as if the name is concentrated in county Donegal which is our northernmost county and very beautiful. I have provided a link for this county as well as the telephone directory.
2006-06-15 03:15:28 · answer #1 · answered by alpha 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do I have Irish relatives?
Ancestral, definitely. Now, maybe, but separated by more than 150 years. My great-great-grandfather immigrated from Ireland to the US around 1849.
Is your name Irish in origin? I don't know the name, but it may be. Have you tried any on-line genealogy resources? You can usually do the first steps of research for free, probably enough to find out if there are any Irish roots for the name.
Names do get changed, and there was a lot of name changing during the great Irish immigration into the US, due to the bigotry displayed against the Irish. That's where the artificial convention of "Scotch-Irish" comes from. There never really was a group called the "Scotch-Irish". Many Irish simply registered as Scots in hopes of avoiding the anti-Irish bigotry.
2006-06-10 15:15:37 · answer #2 · answered by Bender 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My last name is Reynolds and that is VERY IRISH, but I have never heard of Crossan. If you say it's Irish I guess you would know, it's your last name. It might be a variant of another name or something.
I plan on moving my branch of my family tree back to Ireland one day in the future. I'm sick of all of the bickering amongst ourselves in America. It's OK to have different opinions, but when you let your opinions over-ride your patriotism or loyalty to your country, that's when you have problems. I don't intend to stick around and watch the ship sink, I'm getting off while I still can.
I looked it up for you, it's Irish.
2006-06-10 13:24:41 · answer #3 · answered by McReynolds 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MAybe in the Republic, but not so much in Northern Ireland, though I do know of one Crossan family in Northern Ireland.
2006-06-10 13:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've never heard of the name crossan (i'm irish). i bet in the next few days i'll hear it at least once! funny when that happens!
2006-06-10 18:53:15 · answer #5 · answered by annie06 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I KNOW A COUPLE OF CROSSAN'S BUT IT'S A POPULAR NAME
2006-06-10 18:28:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Its not Common at all. meaning it should be pretty easy to find any relatives that you do have here.
What i can tell you about that name is that its French, meaning that your relatives most likely live in the South around Cork or in Munster in general.
2006-06-10 15:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard of them my great grandad has a statue in one of irelands most famous streets
2006-06-10 14:03:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These two websites may give you some information:
http://www.youririshroots.com
http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/magazine/surname/
but you may have to pay a fee if you want your search followed up.
2006-06-10 15:11:18 · answer #9 · answered by migelito 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i live in ireland and to be honest i've never heard that name in my life!!
2006-06-10 13:16:27 · answer #10 · answered by black_listed_01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋