Etymology

Crilly

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Mac Raghailligh
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromMac Raghailligh“son of Raghailleach”
  2. English todayCrilly

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Raghailligh (“son of Raghailleach”). Compare Crawley.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.