It would be very helpful to identify the main concentrations of people of our name in Ireland and try to relate them to the historical tribal origin areas. We would have to use records from the earliest to latest times. The starting point might be the 1659 census and the latest the 1901 census when it has been digitised. There are many sources available.
The same principle would apply to the countries to which people of our name migrated.
Progress
Journal articles
October 2001 Distribution of the name in the USA – 1850 to 1990s
Roger Key has undertaken the County Clusters Project to extract all the name data from Griffith Valuation, 1901 & 1911 censuses. As at April 2025 16 counties have been completed