Ireton Family History

English: most probably a habitational name from Kirk Ireton (Derbyshire) or perhaps from Ireton Farm in Weston Underwood (Derbyshire) both named in Anglo-Scandinavian as Íratūn ‘settlement of the Irish’ or more likely ‘settlement of the Irishman’. The reference may be either to a Scandinavian Viking who had been in Ireland or to an Irishman who came to England with the Vikings.

Occasionally the name may also derive from either of two places called Irton in North Yorkshire of which Irton in Seamer parish is a more likely source than the lost Irton in Coxwold. Both the North Yorkshire places have the same etymologies as those above.