Comments for BYRNE:

Although most folk think this is Irish the Old English 'byrne' meant a hauberk of mail.

-- Krr  6/26/2008

That doesn't look Irish at all. The first thing that comes to my mind is burn, the Scottish (and Irish) dialect word for stream.

-- Undine  3/7/2009

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