Kirby Surname Blog

Full Blog Here: https://merrimanresearch.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-kirby-surname-and-quiet-work-of.html

“  The Kirby surname story, as told on the Genealogy Radio Show’s Surnames and Sources series, is not simply a tale of one family name. It is a small lantern held up to a much bigger landscape: Viking arrival, Gaelic assimilation, church lands, coastlines and riverways, and the way careful sources and statistics can turn fragments of the past into something you can visualise. You can listen to the Kirby show episode at Raidio Corcabaiscinn: The Genealogy Radio Show - The Kirby surname - surnames and sources”

Tori Sheehan was a part of the research team for this project. The weekly radio show, The Genealogy Radio Show, uploads blog posts every week.