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The Families of County Galway Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the 20th Century
by Michael C. O’Laughlin
Michael C. O’Laughlin, The Families of County Galway Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the 20th Century (Kansas City, Missouri, Irish Genealogical Foundation, 1998).
ISBN 0-940134-004
This book is a supplement & addition to the book Book of Irish Families, Great & Small, Volume 6 of the set.
Corless, page 62
[Some of its variant spellings]
Corlas, Corlace
A family name found in Galway in the 1890 birth index of Ireland.
Thomas Corless is found in the parish of Addergoole, Union of Tuam, in the Valuation of Tenements in the 19th century.
Several of the name are given in Mountscribe in 1834, as found in ‘Galway Roots’ v. II, the Journal of the Galway Family History Society.
MacCurley, page 67
[Some of its variant spellings]
Turley, Kerley, Curling, Turly, Terry
Families of the Curley name are found in olden days in Counties Galway and Roscommon, coming from the older spelling of Mac Thoirdealbaigh (son of Turlough). Turley, Turly and possibly Terry, are obvious forms of this name,
In 1659 ‘Curley’ is found in Co. Cork, while in the 1890’s index Curley is found in Roscommon, Galway and Dublin. Nearby Roscommon holds the place names of Ballymacurley and Corley’s Island.
(see The Book of Irish Families, Great & Small for additional entry.)