Irish (mainly Counties Galway and Roscommon): Anglicized form of
Gaelic Mac Thoirdhealbhaigh, a patronymic from the personal
name Toirdhealbhach ‘Thor-shaped’. Compare Turley, from
the unlenited form.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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