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Hello

There aren't very many of us McSherrys, not compared to our near neighbours in County Armagh, the McCanns. McCanns are everywhere you look, even my best man was one but us - well we're special.

Our name in Irish is Mac Searraigh, from the word Searrach meaning foal (young horse) in English. Suggestions have been made that this means we were seen as 'flighty', high-spirited, quick to bolt and run away, difficult to tame. Alternatively it may be an occupational name, for people who worked regularly with young horses, eg horse tamers/breakers.

Whatever its origin, we haven't done so well though we seem to be on the up. Until I did a search on my name, I never realised that there were so many of us around!

There were about 40 McSherrys in the phone book at home when I was a child, now there are more than 70 and we are beginning to appear in newspapers and on television. A long-overdue liberation of a fine and ancinet tribe.

Brendan McSherry
Clonmel
Co Tipperary

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