From d'Arcy, a Norman place-name — Galway city merchants whose trade reached south to Spain and beyond.
The D’Arcy certificate.
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Norman Origin · From the French place-name Arcy
D'Arcy descends from a Norman family named for Arcy, a place in France, who settled in Galway city and built their standing on maritime trade — wine, wool and fish moving between Galway Bay and the ports of Spain and France.
A landowner's name in France became, on the Galway docks, a trader's name instead — the sea mattered more here than the soil ever did.
Irish form: (no Gaelic form)
