Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flannabhra
‘descendant of Flannabhra’ meaning ‘red eyebrows’, or (with
r for the second l) a possible Anglicized form of
Ó Flannghaile ‘descendant of Flannghal’, a personal
name composed of the elements flann ‘red’, ‘ruddy’ + gal
‘valor’. Both are Connacht names.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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