WHELAN
Whelan
The family surname Whelan is an anglicisation of the Irish surname, Ó Faoláin. The surname originates from the Middle Irish 'Úa Faeláin' the name of the 10th to 11th century ruling dynasty of the Déisi, a population group inhabiting the area of the modern county of Waterford and south county Tipperary in the early medieval period.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Whelan
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