Is Áiligh an Irish Surname

[conahy calling]

https://www.google.com/search?q=surname+ailigh&gws_rd=ssl

On this link check 6th one ..suggesting it could be "Daley"

Added  Link is for first names but gives Dailigh "A transferred surname that means meeting, other form Daley.

[heywood]

Is that not Dailigh?

It looks as though Carna is in Moyrush civil parish. There are Healy, Higgins and Adley in Griffiths Valuation 

[dathai]

A Patrick Audley of Carna mentioned here
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.genealogy.ireland/1k7H9h8JM58

[heywood]

A Patrick Audley of Carna mentioned here
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.genealogy.ireland/1k7H9h8JM58

Excellent 

[audbr]

Hi to All,
Many thanks for all your suggestions.

The  Grave is in Galway and the inscription on the grave is in English and States:

In Memory

of

Pat Audley

1894 - 1977

His wife Julia

1907 - 1944

R.I.P.

My interpretation of  the Irish script and the above Memorial is that Áiligh is an Irish surname that has been anglicised to Audley.   The problem I have is that when I search websites for the name Áiligh I get no results. If  Áiligh was an Irish Surname I would have thought that a general search of a website containing parish records (e.g. rootsireland) should have shown up at least one entry; hence my concern; is Áiligh an Irish surname?

 I have read that Woulfe suggests that 'Ó h-Ádhlaigh' is an Irish name that has been anglicised to Audley.
Who was Woulfe? and  if I want to search for Ó h-Ádhlaigh on say Rootsireland do I search for Ohadhlaigh or Adhlaigh.
Please note I am English  so cannot read the Irish script on my first message.

Conahy calling gives a link to Grianan of Aileach which I have also seen a Grianan of Ailigh (in Donnegal) but there is no indication that Ailigh is also a surname.

Sinann gives a link to something called 'Colaisle Ailigh' Unfortunately the website appears to be in Irish which I cannot read so I do not see how I can e-mail them and ask for the meaning of their name.

Thanks to all for your help. I never thought my initial question would create such a response.

Regards
Brian Audley

[Sonas]

Coláiste Ailigh is a school. Its website says that Ailigh refers to an old Irish kingdom. If you have dates for the priest, I might be able to track down info about him.

Irish language spelling wasn't standardised until the 1950s (I think) or so. Words and names can be spelled any which way before then, and probably after then as well.

[heywood]

It may be that the surname Audley has no Irish equivalent so someone invented a spelling.

With my limited Irish, I have been saying Awley which is a bit like the Cawley suggested earlier by eadaoin. Then I thought about Hawley 

However, as I said, the operation may be the opposite i.e. English to Irish translation rather than the opposite.

[eadaoin]

It may be that the surname Audley has no Irish equivalent so someone invented a spelling.

I think this is probably correct .. that it's an English surname, and an Irish equivalent was "invented".

[Sonas]

Also, even though people might have been known by an Irish language spelling of their name, the English language spelling is probably used in parish records.