Delaney
Ó Dubhshláine · descendant of Dubhshláine
Delaney is Ó Dubhshláine in Irish, said oh DOO-shlaw-neh, and means descendant of Dubhshláine.
Dubh, black, and Sláine, which is the river Slaney: the dark one of the Slaney. The family held the Slieve Bloom country on the Laois border.
How it changes
- A man: Ó Dubhshláine
- His daughter: Ní Dhubhshláine
- A woman who married into it: Bean Uí Dhubhshláine
- The family together: Uí Dhubhshláine
Where it comes from
Laois and Kilkenny
Also spelt
Delaney, Delany, Dulaney
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.