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MULDOWNEY Family History

This interesting name is a variant of Molney, which is of Irish origin, and with variant spelling Molony, is the Anglicization of the Gaelic "O' Maol Dhomhnaigh", translates as "the descendant of the servant of the church", with the "O" denoting "the male descendant of", although the name is now seldom found with the prefix "o". Moloney is a Dalcassian sept belonging to Kiltanon near Tulla in East Clare, where they are extremely numerous, although they are equally prevalent in the neighbouring counties of Limerick and Tipperary.