The Irish surname Molony is an anglicized form of the Gaelic name Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh meaning “descendant of the devotee of the Church.” The name is found mainly in county Clare and the nearby counties of Tipperary and Limerick. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Father Dongoh O'Moloney, which was dated 1601, in "Ecclesiastical Records of Killaloe", County Clare, Fifty-five people bearing the name Maloney appear on a "List of Irish Famine Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York", during the years 1846 - 1851. On May 21st 1856, the birth of one Bridget Maloney was registered at Nenagh, County Tipperary.

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