irish family name plaids?

Melina Minneweather: the only plaids or tartans in eire are linked with those prolonged kin families that have been deported there from the Scots/English Borders interior the 1606-09 term. maximum all have been settled in Ulster and are time-honored as we communicate as Ulster Scots who additionally nevertheless communicate the Scots dialect.

Arlene Maycumber: Bruce FAMILY Plaid

May Stands: There are several theories about the origins of the Sanders name (see page on History Of Saunders) We believe our Sanders family originated in Scotland. Many of the early Sanders then migrated to England and Ireland and eventually to America. It is believed that their reasons for leaving the Isles were both political and religious.The Sanders family is linked to the MacAllister family and that Tartan is red with white, green and blue strips. The other tartan associated to this clan is red and blue, with the white and green not included....Show more

Shan Lanen: I dra! w your attention to this:"If anyone tries to sell you a tartan for your Irish Family name - it is an insult. Try to find any historical record of your Irish family being identified by a traditional ‘Irish family’ tartan - you cannot. Tartans as we know them today are Scottish, they are not now, and have never been adopted by Irish Families. Scots-Irish names certainly can have ties to a tartan, but it is still a Scottish tartan. The Irish tartan scheme was invented ‘out of whole cloth’ so to speak, by those who sell tartans. A book was brought out in the 1990’s that assigned tartans to Irish family names, a pure fiction, meant only to sell tartans as if it were a part of your family heritage. It is a big lie. Do not be fooled. Your ancestors would roll over in their graves ! They did not have a family tartan. (Also note that a few years earlier some invented the notion of ‘Irish County Tartans’.)The ‘Irish Family Tartan’ fraud is also an insult to a fine S! cottish custom. By all means, purchase any tartan you wish, an! d enjoy it for the wearing. It is historically inaccurate however, to believe that your Irish family traditionally wore that tartan. If you would be true to history and your family - spread the word - There is no such thing as an Irish Family tartan."http://www.irishroots.com/blog/?p=4http://www.irishroots.com/blog/?p=5...Show more

Robin Tommie: LOL!You couldn’t be more wrong, about every thing that you stated. You just got to love when someone makes a lot of statement, and they have no clue what they are talking about. First lets start with the “Tartan”, (which you think is a Scottish custom. Please!) A Tartan is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical band in multiple bands. Tartan designs are one of the oldest designs and used by all cultures that could weave fabric. Both the Celts and Germanic tribes in Western Europe used Tartan designs, but is was the Celts that made the tartan part of their historic dress, long before the Scots exis! ted. The Scots are the descendents of the Celts, as are the Gaels, Welsh, Cornish and the Bretons. The Gaels refer to all the Irish, the Manx from the Isle of Man and the southwest Lowlands of Scotland. The Bretons come from Brittany France. So the “Tartan” is Not Scottish, It is more Celtic. In-fact the Tartan designs were found on the “Cherchen Man” a 3000 year old mummy. That would be before the Scots. There were NO Clan Tartans until the first half of the 1800’s. That’s right, Not A One. People who wore tartan designs choose colors and patterns they like, (Just like today). The first formalized tartan was the Governmental Tartan known as the “Black Watch” in 1739. The Clan Tartan of Scotland is an invented tradition. The naming and registration of official clan tartans begin on April 8th 1815, when the “Highland Society of London” declared that each clan chief should have one. “Fine Scottish Custom” what a joke and a fraud. And then there is a! “Walking Kilt” or “Small Kilt”. This is the kilt that every th! inks of when your say “Kilt”. Is English, not Scottish. The Kilt that the Scottish Highlanders wore was the Great Kilt or the Belted Plaid. The garment people would recognize as a kilt today was invented in the 1720s by Thomas Rawlinson, a Quaker from Lancashire, (which is a county in the north west of England.) Rawlinson produced a kilt which consisted of the lower half of the belted plaid worn as a "distinct garment with pleats already sewn"....Show more