Hanly Coat of Arms, Family Crest and Hanly Family History

Hanly Family History

The names Hanly and Hanley in Ireland are derived from the native Gaelic O'hAinle Sept. This Gaelic name is derived from the word 'beauty'. Descendants bearing these names can still today can be found mostly in the original settlement Counties of Cork and Roscommon.

A Sept is an ancient form of a Clan and is a group of people whose ancestors all bore the same surname and inhabited the same locality.