Mulpatrick

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The surname Mulpatrick originates from the Irish surname O' Maol Phadraig.{{cite web|url=http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/Woulfe/SortedByAnglicizedRoot_M3.shtml|title=16th & 17th Century Anglicized Irish Surnames from Woulfe|website=medievalscotland.org|accessdate=13 August 2017}} One of the locations the name is first recorded is in Clogher in County Tyrone.

Teallach Maoilpatraig, listed in Topographical Poems by O’Dugan, under Cinel Fearadhaigh. "The most noble of Cinel Fearadhaigh ... Tellach Maoilpatraic".{{cite book | last1=O'Dubhagain | first1=S. | last2=O'Donovan | first2=J. | last3=Huidrin | first3=G.N.Ó. | title=The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla Na Naomh O'Huidhrin | publisher=Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society | series=Publications (Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society) | year=1862 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQsIrTNtxkQC&pg=RA1-PR134 | page=1-PR134}} (Cenél Fearadhaigh is a branch of the Cenél nEógain in east Tyrone.)

Máel Pátraic ‘devotee of Patrick.

O Maol Phadraig translates into follower of (St) Patrick.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/blas/education/beginnersblas/sloinnteomaol.shtml|title=BBC - Northern Ireland - Irish Language - Blas|first=British Broadcasting|last=Corporation|website=www.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=13 August 2017}}

It became O'Mulpatrick and Mulpatrick and the first recorded instances of the surname appear in records from the late 16th century in counties Cavan, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Westmeath and Longford.{{Cite web |url=http://clanmaclochlainn.com/1659cen.htm#Fermanagh |title=A Census of Ireland circa 1659, Farmanagh County |access-date=16 June 2018}} Its current anglicised form is Fitzpatrick.{{Cite web |url=https://www.libraryireland.com/names/om/o-maolphadraig.php |title=Ó Maolphádriag - Irish Names and Surnames |website=Library Ireland |access-date=16 June 2018}}{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland |last=Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2016 |isbn=9780192527479 |pages=2055}}

In 2019 Fitzpatrick/O'Mulpatrick of Breifne – Ó Maol Phádraig Breifne was registered with the Clans of Ireland. This is one of the clans of the Fitzpatrick Clan Society.