English and Irish: apparently a topographic name from Middle
English furlong ‘length of a field’ (from Old English
furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’), the technical term for the
block of strips owned by several different persons which formed the
unit of cultivation in the medieval open-field system of farming, or a
habitational name from a minor place named with this word, such as
Furlong in Devon or Shropshire. The surname is now chiefly common in
Ireland, where a family of this name settled at the end of the 13th
century.Possibly an Americanized form of French Ferland.
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