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Moore is among the twenty most common surnames in Ireland, and its great Gaelic root is Ó Mórdha, “descendant of Mórdha,” a name glossed as majestic. Anglicized as O’More, O’Moore and Moore, it belonged to the lords of Leix, today County Laois, who led the Seven Septs of Leix from their stronghold on the Rock of Dunamase. The name also arrived with English, Scottish and Welsh settlers, so Irish Moores share more than one proud root.
The O’Mores resisted Tudor conquest for generations. Rory Óg O’More, lord of Laois, fought the Crown until his death in 1578, and after the plantation, part of the family was moved to Kerry in 1609, though many made their way back. A later Rory O’More helped organize the rising of 1641. Thomas Moore (1779–1852), the Dublin poet of the Irish Melodies, carried the name into song.
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For the Irish Ó Mórdha tradition associated with Laois, Patrick Woulfe records Moore, More and O'More among the English forms. The expanded Irish range includes designs bearing each of those spellings. Moore has additional origins, as the primary history explains, so that Laois connection belongs to the supported Gaelic branch.
