From Seoighe, the Gaelicised form of Jorz — a Norman-Welsh family who married into Connacht and gave a stretch of Galway mountains their name.
The Joyce certificate.
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Norman Origin · Root name Jorz
Family tradition traces Joyce to Thomas de Jorz, a Norman-Welsh knight said to have arrived in Connacht in the thirteenth century and married into the Ó Flaithbheartaigh (O'Flaherty) lordship of the west. His descendants settled the rugged country between Lough Corrib and Lough Mask.
Most Norman families who took Irish land kept a Norman name for it. The Joyces gave their own name to the land instead — Joyce Country, still called that today.
Irish form: Seoighe
