Falane meaning | Last name Falane origin

Falane is the form of Fallen. Grandson of Fallamhan meaning "ruler".

Lastname is a variant form of the Fallon. Grandson of Fallamhan meaning "ruler".

Falane is variant of the Falloon. Probably a Walloon, or native of what was formerly called the Spanish Netherlands. The Walloon language was said to be a relic of the ancient Gaulish, and hence the people of Artois, Hainault, Namur, Luxembourg, and part of Flanders and Brabant, who spoke it, were called Walloons or Gauls. The substitution of F or V for W is very natural.

Falane is a variant of O'Fallon. A corruption of O'Phelan - From Faolan, whose son Mothea was at Clontarf battle in 1014. The sept is recorded in the earliest annals of Ireland. "They were styled Princes of Desies, a territory comprising the greater part of the present county of Water ford, with a portion of Tipperary. Malachy O'Phelan was their chief at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion, and his was the principal native force that, in cooperation with the Danes of Waterford, sought, but unsuccessfully, to hold that city against the new-comers. Malachy was taken prisoner, and condemned to die, but his life was spared at the intercession of Dermod Mac Murrough, who had on that day come down from Ferns to celebrate the marriage of his daughter with Strongbow. The sept having been afterwards expelled from their old homes, some, after a short sojourn in Western Meath, crossed the Shannon into Connaught, where they spelt the name O'Fallon; and a district in Roscommon was known as O'Fallon's country."

A district in Roscommon was known as O'Fallon's country.