Plaidwerx: Irish Counties and Surnames - County Derry (Londonderry)

COUNTY DERRY

Irish Name: Doire
Nickname: The Oak Leaf County
Motto: Auxilium A Domino (Help comes from the Lord)
County Town: Coleraine
Province: Ulster
Region: Northern Ireland

Tartan: The County Derry tartan is a traditional plaid pattern in green, bright coral, and gold, with black accents. It was designed by Polly Kitteridge and registered as the County Londonderry Tartan for the house of Edgar in 1997. (Reproduction rights restricted to House of Edgar, Macnaughton Holdings Ltd.)

Read about the Derry/Londonderry name dispute at Wikipedia.

County Derry Common Surnames

(Ireland Census):
Bradley, Brown, Campbell, Doherty, Gallagher, Kane, Kelly, MacCloskey, McLaughlin, Moore, Mullen, O'Neill, Smith
(Irish Emigrants):
Baird, Breen, Crown, Doherty, Glenn, Johnston, Kennedy, McLaughlin, Milligan, Moore, O'Connor, O'Kane, Rodgers

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References: The counties of Ireland and their nicknames, 2019, Aidan Lonergan, The Irish Post; Surname Connections to the Irish Counties, RootsWeb, 2007; Irish Surnames and Their Counties, A Letter From Ireland, 2016; Counties of Ireland, Wikipedia, The Scottish Register of Tartans.

Photo credits: (Header) County Londonderry tartan pattern © 1997, House of Edgar, Perth Scotland; used with express permission from House of Edgar, Macnaughton Holdings Ltd.; (Featured) Downhill, County Derry, 2006, Aubrey Dale, 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 County Derry
Location of County Derry
Read about County Derry (Londonderry) at Wikipedia.

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