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Features: Irish Counties & Surnames - Ulster Province

Belfast City Hall, Northern Ireland by Psyberartist
Belfast City Hall, © 2012, Psyberartist

ULSTER PROVINCE

Irish Name: Ulaidh
Counties (Northern Ireland): Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone
Counties (Republic of Ireland): Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan
Region: North

Tartan: The district tartan for Ulster province is a traditional plaid pattern in bright red and forest green with black and gold accents. It is based on fabric found in 1956 in an earth bank on the farm of William Dixon near Dungiven, County Londonderry.

  • Ulster Province Tartan

Ulster Province Common Surnames

(Ireland Census):
Bell, Boyd, Boyle, Bradley, Brady, Brown, Campbell, Cassidy, Clarke, Connolly, Doherty, Dolan, Donnelly, Donohoe, Duffy, Elliott, Farrelly, Fitzpatrick, Flanagan, Gallagher, Galligan, Graham, Hamilton, Hughes, Irvine, Johnston, Kane, Kelly, Kerr, Lynch, MacCabe, MacCann, MacCloskey, MacFadden, MacGovern, MacGowan, MacKenna, MacMahon, MacManus, Maguire, Martin, McGinley, McGovern, McGuffin, McGuinness, McGuire, McKenna, McKeown, Murphy, O'Brien, O'Connor, O'Donnell, O'Kane, O'Neill, O'Reilly, Quinn, Riley, Robinson, Rodgers, Scott, Smith, Stewart, Sweeney, Tierney, Trainor, Wallace, Ward

(Irish Emigrants):
See individual Counties in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, listed above.

Next page: County Waterford


References: Irish Surname Maps, Barry Griffin, Irish Surnames and Their Counties, A Letter From Ireland, 2016; Provinces of Ireland, Wikipedia, The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Photo credits: (Featured) Belfast City Hall, Northern Ireland, 2012, Psyberartist, used under Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 2.0, (Related Resources) Island of Ireland location map, © 2010, NordNordWest, used under Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 3.0. Edited by Susan Wallace.
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Location map of Ulster province
Location of Ulster province
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