Dowling (surname)


Dowling is an Irish surname.
It is an anglicised form representing two unrelated clans:
1 - Ó Dúnlaing, noted as one of the seven septs of County Laois, the ancestral home called Fearann ua n-Dúnlaing. The Irish form of the name is Ní Dhúnlaing, Ó Dúnlaing or Uí Dhúnlaing.
2 - Ó Dubhlainn, a minor family of County Galway, represented by Richard William Dowling, American Confederate officer.

List of people surnamed Dowling