Northern English: topographic name for someone who lived in a rough
hut or shed, northern Middle English scale ‘hut’ (from Old
Norse skáli), later also sc(h)ole, or a habitational
name from one of the various places named with this word, as for
example Scales in Lancashire and Cumbria. The surname has been
established in southern Ireland since the 14th century.
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