O'Driscol Family Crest & Name History

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, O'Driscol is usually a form of O'Driscoll. Read literally, O'Driscol points to “Descendant of Eidirsceól ("interpreter")”.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• You may also find the name written Driscoll and Driscol.
• Without the “l” of O'Driscoll, O'Driscol is a simpler written form of the same name.

Family crest and blazon

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