Dowdall is an Irish surname. The earliest forms of spelling were: Dowdell, Dowdale and Dowdle. Dowdall was first used as a surname in Yorkshire, certainly by the time of the Norman conquest of England.
The Irish Dowdalls came from the valley of Dovedale in Derbyshire. They settled in County Louth in the thirteenth century.[1]
- ^ Otway-Ruthven, A.J. History of Medieval Ireland Barnes and Noble reissue 1993