Buckley
Ó Buachalla · descendant of the cowherd
Buckley is Ó Buachalla in Irish, said oh BOO-a-khal-a, and means descendant of the cowherd.
Buachaill is a boy or a cowherd. Nothing to do with the English Buckley, which is a place name in Cheshire, though the two have been indistinguishable in writing for centuries.
How it changes
- A man: Ó Buachalla
- His daughter: Ní Bhuachalla
- A woman who married into it: Bean Uí Bhuachalla
- The family together: Uí Bhuachalla
Where it comes from
Cork
Also spelt
Buckley, Bohilly, Boughla
A name, not a pedigree
This is where the name came from, which is not the same as where you came from. Names were translated, anglicised, taken on by tenants and neighbours, and carried in by settlers who were no relation to the family that started them. To follow your own line, the 1901 and 1911 censuses are free and searchable, and give the county each person was born in.