 In the province of Ulster, it became "Hughes", the patronymic of Hugh, an anglicized variant of the given name Aodh.Hayes is noted on a public record in County Wexford as early as 1182.In County Cork, under the Munster providence, Hayes falls under the banner of the McNamara clan in the Dalcassian Sept. Other Irish Hayeses have also been associated with Clan Cian, the ruling O'Carroll clan of southern Ireland.