Meskell Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Meskell Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Meskell

The Meskell family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. The name Meskell has many variants, not only in ancient records but also in modern times. These include Mescal, Mescall, Miskelly, Mescill, Meskal, Meskel, Meskela, Meskellm, Meskel, Miskill, Miskel, Miskela, Miskele, Miskella, Miskell and Miskle. This name in Irish is O'Meiscill and the latter variants are the anglicized forms of this. This sept came from Limerick . The earliest reference to the name occurs in a Justiciary Roll in the year 1313 dealing with County Limerick . In the birth registrations of 1865 and 1866, 70 births where registered, 39 in Clare and South Galway , 10 in Limerick , 8 in Waterford and 6 in Wexford. In Griffith's Evaluation of the nineteenth century the name was popular in Wexford and Waterford and the current voters list in County Clare shows they are numerous there. The form Miskella is confined mostly to North Ulster .