Southern Irish: reduced form of O’Healy, an Anglicized form
of Gaelic Ó hÉilidhe ‘descendant of the claimant’, from
éilidhe ‘claimant’, or of Gaelic Ó hÉalaighthe
‘descendant of Éaladhach’, a personal name probably from
ealadhach ‘ingenious’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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