Families of County Wicklow

Families of County Wicklow

• ByrneOf the Wicklow Mountains, the unconquered lordship at the back of the Pale.
• DoyleDark stranger, the Hiberno-Norse families of the south-east coast.
• ParnellThe Cheshire-Parnells of Avondale, and the uncrowned king of Ireland.

Historic ties to Wicklow

Families with historic but not core ground in this county.

• Burke
• Nolan

Champions of County Wicklow

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Wicklow.

• Charles Stewart ParnellThe Wicklow Anglo-Irish Protestant landlord who built the Irish Parliamentary Party into the disciplined eighty-six-vote bloc that held the balance of power at Westminster, forced the Liberal government to introduce the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1886, and earned the title the Uncrowned King of Ireland.