This is a very rare category of surname. I have only been able to identify a few. It is my belief, though, that the adoption of place name surnames took place after the English invasion and occupation of parts of Ireland, beginning in the late 12th century. The English saw the clan system as a barrier to the complete subjugation of the Irish and the im.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21. The Brothers, Disputing Over the Founding of Rome, Consult the Augurs. And being that, with a princeps educated and studious in all areas of knowledge, malevolent men impute as twisted the arts of foreknowing the future, let us briefly turn our attention upon how this may also add to a wise man, this kind of learning, scarcely trivial. Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.

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