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DAWSON DORRIAN
Dawson sometimes has a Gaelic not an English origin. A district registrar's report from Ballyshannon states that in that part of Co. Donegal the same family has been known both as Dawson and Durrian. Durrian like Dorrian, is normally a variant of Doran, i.e., Ó Deoráin . In Co. Down this is sometimes anglicized Adorian, as well as the more usual Dorrian. The Dawson family of Ulster came to Ireland during the Elizabethan wars and settled in Co. Monaghan, they became Earls of Cremome and Dartrey. Another Dawson family acquired large estates around Portarlington, Co. Laois, another got possession of the Glen of Aherlow in Co. Tipperary from where the name Dawson's Table in connexion with the mountain, Galtee More comes. Dawson sometimes has a Gaelic not an English origin. A district registrar's report from Ballyshannon states that in that part of Co. Donegal the same family has been known both as Dawson and Durrian. Durrian like Dorrian, is normally a variant of Doran, i.e., Ó Deoráin . In Co. Down this is sometimes anglicized Adorian, as well as the more usual Dorrian. The Dawson family of Ulster came to Ireland during the Elizabethan wars and settled in Co. Monaghan, they became Earls of Cremome and Dartrey. Another Dawson family acquired large estates around Portarlington, Co. Laois, another got possession of the Glen of Aherlow in Co. Tipperary from where the name Dawson's Table in connexion with the mountain, Galtee More comes.