What part of Ireland is your family from?

[IrishEyes]

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My family is from Mayo, Sligo, Galway and Cork. They came to America in the 1890s and early 1900s.

[No Vested Interest]

1. Tyrone and Cavan; emigrated ca 1820.

Luckily, basic family genealogy was written by first generation in 1920, but many details have been lost.

Family name is second most common in Ireland, as well as Ireland's patron name for first name, so it's hard to trace with any exactitude.

[Journeyman]

2. Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon . . .

[Adsos Letter]

3. Londonderry

Came to America circa. 1750.

[CBHagman]

4. I'm still trying to verify.

I've yet to find a document to confirm family lore about our origins, so at this point I can only make educated guesses. Census and naturalization records only specify Ireland, nothing more.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Wexford.

They emigrated in 1853.

[QC]

6. Mine came from County Clare about 1650. n/t

[Denis 11]

7. Kerry

My mother was from Tralee and my father was from Castleisland.

[CountAllVotes]

8. Tipperary & Louth; Kilkenny

Two great great grandfathers (one from Tipperary and the other was from Louth) and both great great grandmothers were from Kilkenny (different parishes). Seems they all arrived around the same time -- c. 1860 to New York best I can figure.

One thing is certain, they all enjoyed a good pint now and then!

There could well be more and I'll never know the answer to that -- they were first seen in America long before the Revolutionary War in North Carolina so who knows?

[JFKDem62]

9. My grandparents immigrated to Boston from County Mayo

Ballyhaunis: Currane and Derrynacong.

I am half Irish and eligible to be an Irish citizen,
my siblings and first cousins have Irish passports in addition to American ones.

We have Irish cousins who still live next door to the house Grandma grew up in.

[Native]

10. Roscommon

Finally got dual citizenship last April!

[Narraback]

11. My father was Roscommon and mother from Cavan

Dads home place is near athleague. A fee miles outside Roscommon Town. My mother was from outside Blackloin Co Cavan. They are both lovely places!

Narraback

[PufPuf23]

12. My great grandfather and grandfather were both born in Hilltown, County Down.

They came to north coast California in late 1870s and late 1880s respectively.

My great grandfather had abandoned his family and my grandfather came to California to find his father.

I visited "cousins" for 5 days in 1981 at the family farm and birth place of my ancestors near Hilltown and found out 3 things:

1. The story of my great grandfather's abandonment. My Dad didn't even know about his grandfather being in California. I found his grave in Siskiyou county afterwards.

2. That part of the family was Irish-Catholic. My Dad also did not know this about his heritage.

3. About the "troubles" in general. Bobby Sands died of the hunger strike in the Maze the day I arrived in Hilltown.

My paternal great grandmother was Scotch Irish but I do not know about where in Ireland but would assume the north. My paternal great great grandparents came to Virginia from Ireland, moved to Missouri, and then moved to what was then Klamath county, California (Klamath county is the one California county that no longer exists and is now parts of Humboldt, Siskiyou, Del Norte, and Trinity counties). They had 5 children, some born in Virginia and some in Missouri. That great great grandfather passed on in Missouri and one brother was killed by Native Americans near Tonapah, NV. The other three sisters (one my great grandmother) and their mother came to Klamath county in 1860s (that turned to Humboldt county for my great grandmother and Siskiyou county for her sisters) to join the remaining brother who had come West in the 1850s. My great great grandmother is the oldest woman in the pioneer cemetery at Forks of Salmon, Siskiyou county.

So I am 3/8s Irish and Scotch-Irish and my Dad was 3/4s Irish and Scotch Irish. He was nicknamed "Irish" as a youth. His non-Irish grandfather was a young Swede who jumped ship in San Francisco in the late 1850s and went to the gold fields.

[KatyMan]

13. Donegal and Tyrone

in the early 1900s.

[Glamrock]

14. According to pa, County Cork.

However, me pa's been known to be full of shite.

[Bill Hansun]

15. My family is from County Wexford

The Hansun's came to America in the 1870's. Settled in New York.

[NBachers]

16. Cavan in the early 1800's - The Burkes and Fitzpatricks both new each other in Cavan,

and followed the Canada- Nebraska - Sioux Falls - eventually to Chicago route. My mom scandalized the Irish family by marrying a non-Catholic German Protestant. Of course, Dad had to convert before they got married.

[IrishEyes]

17. My grandma did the same.

She scandalized the family by marrying a non Irish Protestant in the 1930s. Grandpa was Scottish and English. Their children were raised Catholic. Strange thing was that I did some research on his side of the tree a few years ago and discovered that he had ancestors from Ireland so he actually was part Irish.

[CBHagman]

18. Definitely the west of Ireland, based on a DNA test...

...and Northern Ireland, probably Dungiven, based on one of the surnames on my family tree.

[LisaM]

19. I'm just starting to research it - County Leitrim is what we found for the most recent link.

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Though she may have moved to Dublin before emigrating to New York.

Charmingly, we found my step-great grandmother listed as having come from "the Irish Free State". I found that incredibly moving, since it must have been recorded very shortly after 1920.

[twogunsid]

20. Limerick and Tipperary

[Falcata]

21. County Louth

Drogheda to be specific. They left in the 1780's for NC.

[radical noodle]

22. Enniskillin, County Fermanagh

They came to America in 1816/1817 and eventually settled in Indiana. I have the handmade trunk that they used to bring their belongings on the ship. It's a treasure.

[IrishEyes]

23. That is a very cool thing to have.

I have piece of stone from the house my great grandmother's family lived in the late 1800s. She left home with her little brother for the US when she was 17 but her father and older brothers stayed in Ireland. She worked and saved money to bring her brothers over to US. All of them moved to the US except for her father and one brother.

[radical noodle]

24. My family traveled with another family

the Mitchells. Our family name was Portteus. My gg grandmother was a Portteus.

[MountCleaners]

25. Westport, County Mayo

My grandparents came over 1930-31. Most of my family are still there in the same area, but some are in Britain. My grandmother was the only one in her family to emigrate.

[juxtaposed]

26. south western coast on the bottom left.

[luvs2sing]

27. County Kerry

A little village that is now a park called Dobbins Glen. My 4th great-grandfather, Patrick McGlaughlin, came to America around 1790. My grandfather used to tell us he was an Orangeman, but I have no proof.

[Polly Hennessey]

28. Kilbeggan, County Westmeath

[subterranean]

29. Cork

They came over here around the same time yours did.

[Sneederbunk]

30. My mother's paternal grandfather County Armagh 1870's.

[MontanaMama]

31. My mother was an O'Hollaren.

Her family came from Sligo. The came to America in the early 1900”s.

[a la izquierda]

32. Ha I just found this.

My dad’s paternal line are apparently Ulster Scots who migrated during the 1700s (maybe) to County Monaghan. My great grandad migrated from a little town called Drumgoose in 1905.
My dad’s maternal line come from the border areas of Counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon, and Tipperary. My great grandma came over in 1914 from Ballinasloe.

[slevdog]

33. Tyrone / Donegal

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Tyrone & Donegal mid 1800s

[TxGuitar]

37. Same here but 1912/14

Both maternal grandparents were from Ireland, which is how MrsTxGuitar and I have Irish citizenship!

[Irish_Dem]

34. Grandparents are from County Mayo. nt

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[franzwohlgemuth]

35. Cavan

Traced it back to a general in Brian Baru's army at the battle of Clontarf.

[coeur_de_lion]

36. West Cork - Goleen/Schull and Drimoleague

Pretty country. Hard hit by famine.

[Tree Lady]

38. Donegal and near Belfast

They came to America during the potato famine time.

[Harker]

39. My father's family traces back to Galway.

My wife and I spent three weeks in the west of Ireland a few years back, and when my last name came up, there was often a comment about how many so named are in Galway.