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COLBERT
Well known in south Munster and the prominence of Cornelius Colbert, one of the signatories of the Irish declaration of the Irish Republic, who was executed by the British after the 1916 Rising, has familiarized it widely in Ireland. Thios name came to Ireland from England. It occurs in Domesday Book (1066) as Colbeorht, a combination of Old-English words meaning calm and bright.. In Ireland it appeared as early as 1417 when a Thomas Colbert was involved in a trespass case at Tipperary. Griffith's Valuation found Colberts very numerous in Co. Waterford in 1850, more than 55 householders of the name were recorded there.