Other branches of the clan: Bourke, Birk, Bourk, Burk, de Bourg, de Burgh, de Burgo, de Bourgho.
Irish Clan Name: de Burca.

This is not an Irish name, but an Anglo-Norman one, deriving from the mediaeval French, de Burgh, meaning "of the Borough". A borough or burgh was a town important enough to have a town charter granted by the monarchy. The founder of this family was John, Earl of Comyn and Baron Tonsburgh in Normandy, France in the early eleventh century. Baron John was a General and Governor of the northern French port of Caen and this is the "Burgh" referred to in the family name.

Ballymoe, Glinsk and Creggs are part of the ancestral home of the Burkes in Ireland and form a stage of the Beara-Breifne Greenway which is based on the historic march of O'Sullivan Beara in 1603.

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Great Houses

For info on Portumna Castle associated with the Burke Clan