A Cornish toponymic surname, ‘top of the moor’ — carried to Ireland by a Quaker family who founded Waterford Crystal.
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Cornish Origin · From pen, ‘head/top’, and ros, ‘moor, heath’
Penrose is a Cornish toponymic surname, from pen (‘head’ or ‘top’) and ros (‘moor’ or ‘heath’) — naming a family from a place at the top of a heath, several of which exist across Cornwall. In Ireland it's most closely tied to the Quaker Penrose family of Waterford, where George and William Penrose founded the glassworks in 1783 that became Waterford Crystal.
A name for a patch of Cornish moorland that ended up, three centuries later, cut into some of the world's most famous crystal.
Irish form: (no Gaelic form)
