Wicklow
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- Mill: HOE
- Weight: 13 oz.
- Known Septs Include:
Names prominent in this county include: Bollard, Bryne, Butler, Byrne, Cheevers, Cooke, Cosgrave, Cosgrove, Doyle, Eustace, Eutace, Fitzwilliam, Furlong, Gahan, Kelly, Keogh, Lombard, MacKeogh, McKeogh, O'Byrne, O'Cosgrove, O'Gahan, O'Kelly, O'Tool, O'Toole, Talbot, Tallon, Tighe, Tool, Toole, Walsh
- Notes:
A town as well as a county, Wicklow is bordered by the Irish Sea. In ancient times Wicklow’s fertile glens and gold bearing alluvial deposits was a source of great wealth for the early Celts who once made their homes in the hills and glens of Wicklow. St. Kevin helped to bring Christianity to this region of Ireland & is reputed to have spent the last years of his life as a hermit near Glendalough. Once part of the historical kingdom of Leinster, Wicklow was the last region of southern Ireland to be shired. - notes by Sarah Nagle
One of a series of Irish District tartans designed (and copyrighted) by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar in 1995. This is not an 'officially sanctioned' District tartan but has proven popular.