Der Name

Folgendes kann man in irischen Geschichtsbücher über die Herkunft des Namen d´Arcy lesen: “The name is often spelt D'Arcy. This is historically correct in the cast of those families of the name which descend from Sir John D'Arcy who was Chief Justice of Ireland in the Fourteenth century, e.g., the Darcys of Hyde Park, Co.Westmeath, whose chief seat was Platten, Co. Meath; and it is reasonable to assume that the

Darcys of the east midlands of Ireland are of that stock. It may be mentioned here that though Norman in origin, the name being originally D'Arci, form Arci a place in Normandy, these did not come to Ireland as early as the Anglo-Norman invasion. There is no justification for the Darcys of Munster and Connacht (with a few exceptions) using the form D'Arcy, because they were of native Irish stock and their name is a corruption of the Gaelic O Dorchaidhe, which was first anglicized as O'Dorcey. There was minor septs so called: one in Co. Mayo was located around Partry near Lough Mask; the other in east Galway was a branch of the Ui Maine. In the "Annals of Loch Ce" the name MacDarcy a ppears as that of a Co. Leitrim chieftain in the years 1384 and 1403. O'Donovan in his notes to the Four Masters under the date 1310 places the MacDarcy sept in the parish of Oughteragh, Co. Leitrim. The most distinguished of the name was the lawyer, Patrick Darcy (1598-1668), a prominent member of the Supreme Council of the Confederation of Kilkenny, and Patrick Count Darcy (1725-1779), Chevalier and Marechal-de-camp in the service of France, who was a mathematician of note as well as a


	famous soldier. Oliver Darcy was Bishop of Dromore from 1670 to 1674, having previously held the see of Ardagh. It has been proved by O'Donovan that the Darcys who became one of the Tribes of Galway were of true Irish stock, being descended from the O'Dorceys of Partry, Co. Mayo.