Galbally

English

Etymology

From Irish gall (“foreigner, stranger”) + baile (“settlement”).

Proper noun

Galbally (countable and uncountable, plural Galballys)

1. A village in County Limerick, Munster, Ireland.
2. A habitational surname from Irish.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Galbally is the 31416^th most common surname in England, belonging to 114 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Galbally”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.