English: habitational name from any of various places in
Lincolnshire, Cheshire, and North Yorkshire, named from Old Norse
Írabýr ‘settlement of the Irish’. Compare Ireton.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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