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Thank you, peter, for your posting! Our Mary Carben (1800-1879), we have been told, came from County Clare; she was a school mistress. I don't think anyone of our informants ever knew there were Carbens native to County Mayo. Neither did any of them remember the Gaelic form of her name, although they did remember Mac Paidin for Padden. But then there were lots of Paddens. The phonetics of Gaelic are beyond me, but I have been relying on Woulfe to help sort out the possibilities. We heard the name as in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Woulfe has no Carben, and the likely Gaelic forms seemed to be O Corbain, O Coirbin, and O Cearbhain. He suggests that Corbain would match with "lord," as in O Lordan; the variant Coirbain would have "uh" or "eh" or "ih" in the first syllable; so these two forms seemed to be ruled out. O Cearbhain, with a first syllable matching "heart," seemed the best choice, even though the aspiration of the "b" was troubling. Woulfe's identification of Carabine with Coribeen, going back to Coirbin didn't help. But if they were saying Carbine in Vermont, it must be our Carben. So it's O CORBAIN! Do you think I got it right this time? Merry Christmas!.
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