MacTurley Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Anyone researching MacTurley should also look under Turley. The family name meaning is “Son of Turlough”, the same as for Turley.

The Mac in front of the name is a particle that was often added to Turley in records. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named MacTurley, so the heraldry linked to Turley is a starting point, not an automatic right. For the full story, order the MacTurley surname pack.