Last name: GILLIGAN
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GILLIGAN : This last name is indexed 23,319 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GILLIGAN : Irish (Sligo Offaly and Roscommon): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giollagáin a double diminutive of giolla ‘lad’.
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