From the Norman de Camville — settlers granted land in Kilkenny and Tipperary after the twelfth-century invasion.
The Cantwell certificate.
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Norman Origin · From the place-name Camville
Cantwell descends from the Anglo-Norman de Camville family, granted land in Kilkenny and Tipperary in the wake of the 1169 invasion. Unlike neighbours such as Butler and Grace, the name never developed a widely used Gaelic form.
Not every Norman arrival Gaelicised at the same pace, or at all — this is one of the names that stayed closer to its French shape.
Irish form: (no Gaelic form)
