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Tipperary county in Ireland Fanning, and Fenning, are variants of Fenn, a name for someone who lived in a low-lying, marshy area called a fenn. The name is English in origin. Those variants beginning with Fa- may be derived from the Old English faenn, which is the East Saxon form of fenn. Fanning is the name of a family once closely associated with Limerick, Ireland. The name is first documented there when Richard Fanning obtained lands at Bunratty around 1220 AD.

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