The Gallagher Surname
- Meaning
- descendant of the foreign helper
- Type
- Patronymic
- Root
- Irish Ó Gallchobhair
- Chiefly
- Donegal
From gall, foreign, and cabhair, help or support. The sept is strongly associated with Donegal and the name remains commonest there.
It has been spelled a great many ways: Gallaher, Gallacher, Galliher among them.
Bestow the name a title it never had
An honorific Lord or Lady certificate in the Gallagher name, hand-finished and sealed, with a square metre of Scottish woodland dedicated alongside it. A novelty, magnificently done — and a good deal more fun than a family tree.
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