Early Origins The O’Halloran family motto is generally given as “Ripis rapax, rivis audax”, meaning ‘On the banks rapacious, in the streams daring.’ Another version is “Rapax ripis, audax rives”, similarly translated as ‘Rapacious on the banks, audacious on the rivers’. Family lore holds that it was bestowed on the family as a result of […]
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