Last name: GILROY
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GILROY : This last name is indexed 23,500 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GILROY : Irish and Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Irish Mac Giolla Rua and Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Ruaidh ‘son of the red-haired lad’ from ruadh ‘red’. Compare McElroy.
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