Belfast city: | 5 | Derry: | 5 | Down: | 4 | Dublin: | 1 |
Dublin city: | 1 | Mayo: | 3 | Meath: | 1 | Offaly: | 1 |
Roscommon: | 1 | Tipperary: | 1 | Waterford: | 1 | Westmeath: | 1 |
Forrester | Quite numerous: Dublin, Ulster. English. DBS. |
Forster | fairly numerous: Belfast, Down, Fermanagh, Longford. English, as Forrester. |
Foster | numerous: Ulster, N Leinster, N Munster. English, (1) foster-parent, (2) variant of Forrester. Reaney also mentions Forseter, a shearer, as a possible derivation. DBS. |
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