Irish Kilt?

[Laighneach]

Yes, there are a great many descriptions of Irish bagpipes with drones, I do wish there was more visual evidence, I really do. As I said earlier, Sean Donnelly has uncovered 29 actual Irish references to bagpipes, including “smallpipes”, “bagpipes” "One pair of loud pipes for 20 shillings" and "One pair of Soft Pipes" for 6 shillings and and Eightpence. At least some of these would have drones, I would surmise. The illustration from Derrick’s “Image of Ireland” I admit I do have a problem with. It was not done by an eyewitness and the bagpipe looks like a very unrealistic version of a German Doodle sack. The bagpipe with no drones was done from life, or “in the quicke”. It’s the engraving taken from the contemporary scene from the oil painting at Cowdray Castle of the piper leading the Irish kerne serving under King Henry VIII at the seige of Boulougne, the bagpipe looks like a droneless bousine type, clutched to the chest rather than played under the arm, as was the European style of playing at the time. In a recent exhibition at the National Army Museum in Chelsea this image of the Kerne piper was enhanced and enlarged to many times it's original size, I have had a look at this but the detail is not clear enough to see the chanter details. I suspect it may be a double chanter. Sadly, I have no link.

You don't mean this, do you? -
http://source.pipers.ie/Media.aspx?mediaId=3238
I don't see how one could draw any conclusions about the nature of Irish bagpipes from this very basic image.