Talty is a surname found in County Clare, Ireland. It is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic "Ó Tailtigh" ‘descendant of Tailteach’. Other surnames with the same origin are Tully, Tally, MacTully, MacAtilla, Flood and possibly Floyd. The Ó Tailtigh family were physicians to the O'Conors, Kings of Connacht and also to the O'Reillys of Breffny in County Cavan. References Talty in GoIreland Irish Families, Their Names and Origins by Edward MacLysaght, (Dublin, 1958) Ireland's DNA Surnames Irish families History of County Clare Connacht