Tartans

[John Connelly]

I want to get a kilt that is related to my family tartan but when I search for my family name/names I can't find a tartan related to any of them. Can anyone here help me? My last name is Connelly. My roots came from Northern Ireland in Monaghan and Munster. Other spellings are O'Conghaile, O'Conghalaigh. The Munster Connollys were from West Cork and were subjects to the O'Donovans. Can anyone help me with my family tartan or do I need to go with a tartan from one of the counties my ancestors were from? Thanks for any help someone can give.

John Connelly

[Sionnach]

John, first want to say from Peoria AZ. I have searched Irish tartans, too, for my wife and sons, all I have found are county tartans. But that's all I know, someone more knowledgeable will likely show up for a better answer to your questions.

[RockyR]

Aside from the County tartans (2 sets... both the County and the County CREST tartans), there are also the Irish National, Ireland's National (2 distinctly different tartan), Irish American, Irish District tartans (Ulster, Munster, Leinster, Connacht), Solid color "Saffon", and a few other "universal Irish" tartans.

Not many Irish families have clan tartans like the Scots do... Connelly (to the best of my knowledge) does NOT have a tartan.

Hope this helps!

[English Bloke]

Welcome from Lancashire England. If you want people to recognise you as being Irish rather than Scots, get a solid colour saffron Kilt.

[Riverkilt]

Welcome, and great advice above.

You can also work on filling out your family tree. Scots tended to "get around" and the farther out your family tree you go the more likely there's a Scot lurking on a branch or two.

And caution - genealogy can be as addictive as kilts.

Ron

[DWFII]

In some instances Irish families have Scots roots and vice versa. In my own case, the original stock migrated from Ireland to Argyll right around the 10th or 11th century, became wealthy, landed (built the oldest standing stone castle in Scotland--Castle Sween), and then, on the wrong side at Bannockburn, went back to Ireland. In fact, there are, today, reportedly more MacSuibhne's in Ireland than there are in Scotland although the name (in that form and that spelling) originated there. But, as I understand it, the "O" in "O'Conghaile" is roughly analogous to the "mac" in "MacSuibhne." Both of these prefixes mean "son of" according to my information. Maybe the original Conghaile was a Scot or related to a Scot before it became the convention to add "Mac" or "O" to designate lineage?

Just a thought...

[Highlander31]

Welcome to the forum John. The above is good advice. My wife has used three ancestry search sites in her searches; Ancestry.com, Curiousfox, and Genes reunited. Riverkilt is correct, it can be addicting. There are other benefits to searching your heritage. As a direct result of her searches, we now correspond with distant relatives in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and Scotland. Our younger children now enjoy conversations with their new cousins giving them different perspectives of the world.

I did a quick search of the Scottish Tartan Authority for Connelly. I found two district tartans (Dundee.) Here's the link.

http://www.tartansauthority.com/web/site/cart2.asp

[glenlivet]

And caution - genealogy can be as addictive as kilts.

Ditto^10

[Carolina Kiltman]

I want to get a kilt that is related to my family tartan but when I search for my family name/names I can't find a tartan related to any of them. Can anyone here help me? My last name is Connelly. My roots came from Northern Ireland in Monaghan and Munster. Other spellings are O'Conghaile, O'Conghalaigh. The Munster Connollys were from West Cork and were subjects to the O'Donovans. Can anyone help me with my family tartan or do I need to go with a tartan from one of the counties my ancestors were from? Thanks for any help someone can give.

John Connelly

From the Cape Fear River Valley, NC. John, my off the top advice is to go for either the district or St. Patrick (who, if I remember correctly, is buried in Armagh.)

[smaughazard]

Well, I have no idea whether the names are just coincidence, but Billy Connolly sometimes wears a kilt: