Blessington Family History
Blessington Name Meaning
English (now most common in Fermanagh Northern Ireland): habitational name from Pleasington in Blackburn (Lancashire) named with the Old English personal name Plēsa + tūn ‘estate farmstead’ and altered to Blessington possibly under the influence of Blessington Wicklow. The name of Blessington in Wicklow Ireland founded in 1669 is based on an English mistranslation of the Irish name Baile Coimín ‘town of Coimín’ where the surname Ó Coimín (English Comyn) was mistaken for the Irish word comaoin ‘favour obligation blessing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022