Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Galway, Roscommon, and Sligo, County Mayo is part of the province of Connacht. The county's boundaries, which were formed in 1585, reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time. The history of County Mayo is long, with evidence of occupation going back to Mesolithic communities around 4500B. The county has experienced perhaps the highest emigration out of Ireland. From the 1840’s to 1880’s emigrants left the rural townlands of the county initially triggered by the great famine, as well as searching for new work in the United Kingdom and the United States. Today the county has beautiful landscapes and historical sites, such as the tombs.","County Cork (Cork, Contae Chorcai)
County Cork is the largest of the 32 counties of Ireland and in the province of Munster. King Henry the VII named the county the "rebel county" because of its support. County Cork borders Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. Much of what is now County Cork was once part of the Kingdom of Daes Mumhan. After the Norman invasion in the 12th century, the McCarthy clan pushed westward into what is now West Cork and County Kerry. West Cork is one of Ireland's leading tourist destinations with all the history, megalithic monuments, and Wild Atlantic Way. ","Richard de Clare (1130-1176) was a famed archer, and was popularly called De Arcu Forti, meaning of the Strong Bow. When his father died, he was about eighteen","County Limerick (Limerick, Contae Luimnigh)
County Limerick is in the province of Munster and located in the Mid-West. The county's name in Irish is Luimneach, "the flat area," which is relatively accurate as the land consists mainly of a fertile limestone plain. Volcanic rock is found in numerous areas in the county, including Carrigogunnell, Knockfierna, and Pallasgreen/Kilteely in the east. It is believed humans established in County Limerick in the Lough Gur possible as early as 3000 BC. The county has a long history, and many artifacts can be found, enticing lots of tourists to the area as well as artists.","Ireland was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet. ","Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness.","The Irish Potato Famine, also known as The Great Famine or Great Hunger lasted from 1845 to 1850 and resulted in a great exodus of Irish refugees fleeing to Britain, Australia, and North America, one of the most dramatic waves of Irish migration in history. It was one of the world's worst disasters in world history - over one million people died in a five year span.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books2.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books2.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/county_mayo.webp?pos=floatRight","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/county_limerick.webp?pos=floatRight","","","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Gippons","sU":"FITZGIBB","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/FITZGIBB/IR/Gippons/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"/dpreview/ANDERSON/SC/Anderson/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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