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Thursday, September 24, 2009

A Mapped Genealogy Of Irish Surnames


On St Patrick's Day everyone yous encounter volition claim to convey Irish Gaelic roots. You tin plow over the axe at 1 time authenticate these claims past times referring to the Geo-Genealogy of Irish Gaelic Surnames.

This Esri map shows the place of 2,500 Irish Gaelic surnames past times county based on information from an Irish Gaelic census inward 1890. The surname labels displayed on the map are sized to correspond relative nascency rates inward the county of people amongst that surname.

If yous piece of employment inward someone's Irish Gaelic surname into the map yous tin plow over the axe astonish them amongst a mapped visualization of where their ancestors in all probability lived inward Ireland. If their cite doesn't seem on the map yous tin plow over the axe instead regale them amongst the floor of why at that spot are no snakes inward Ireland.