The story
- Irish · derived fromÓ Maoilearca“descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Earc”
- English todayMullarkey
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Maoilearca (“descendant of the devotee of (Saint) Earc”), perhaps a byname from earc (“newt”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.