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Families of Ulster

The northern province — nine counties, six within Northern Ireland, three in the Republic. Land of the Ó Néills, the Ó Domhnaills, and the Plantation that re-shaped the north after 1610.

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Counties of Ulster · 9

  • Antrim

    Aontroim

    The Glens, the Causeway coast, Belfast — Ulster Scots, Mac Domhnaill of the Isles, and the Plantation of 1610.

  • Armagh

    Ard Mhacha

    The orchard county — primatial seat of St Patrick, the Ulaid kingdom, and the heart of Ó Néill country.

  • Cavan

    An Cabhán

    Drumlin country and the Ó Raghallaigh lordship of East Bréifne.

  • Donegal

    Dún na nGall

    Tír Chonaill — the Ó Domhnaill kingdom, Ráth Cheannaí, and the last Gaelic Ireland to fall.

  • Down

    An Dún

    The Mournes, Strangford Lough, Downpatrick — the saint's burial place and the Mac Aonghusa lordship.

  • Fermanagh

    Fear Manach

    Lough Erne and the Maguire kingdom — Cuconnacht Maguire, the lord of the lake.

  • Derry

    Doire

    Doire Cholm Cille — Columba's oak grove, and the Plantation city behind seventeenth-century walls.

  • Monaghan

    Muineachán

    The drumlin belt and the Mac Mathúna kingdom of Airgialla.

  • Tyrone

    Tír Eoghain

    Tír Eoghain — Owen's land. The Ó Néill heartland, the seat of the high kings of the north.