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This is a list of coats of arms of Ireland. In the majority of cases these are arms assigned to county councils created by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 or later legislation, either by the Chief Herald of Ireland in what is now the Republic of Ireland or by the College of Arms in Northern Ireland .
The armorial achievement of the Kingdom of Ireland, including the infrequently used crest An unofficial or 'artistic' Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Ireland after 1707 Royal arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, still visible at King's Inns, Dublin.
Irish heraldry is the forms of heraldry, such as coats of arms, in Ireland.Since 1 April 1943 it is regulated in the Republic of Ireland by the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland and in Northern Ireland by Norroy and Ulster King of Arms.
The arms of Ireland are a gold, silver-stringed Celtic harp (cláirseach) on an azure field.. As a region, Northern Ireland has not been granted a coat of arms, but the Government of Northern Ireland was granted arms in 1924, which have not been in use since the suspension of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972, which was abolished the following year.
A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. The oldest extant armorials date to the mid-13th century, and armorial manuscripts continued to be produced throughout the early modern period .
Image Details Dublin and Glendalough, confirmed 5 April 2016 . Escutcheon: Azure an episcopal staff Argent ensigned with a cross pattée fitchée at all points or surmounted by a pall of the second edged and fringed of the third charged with five crosses formée fitchée Sable the whole within a bordure also Gold.
Coats of arms of Northern Ireland (3 P, 2 F) Pages in category "Irish coats of arms" ... Armorial of Ireland; B. Baron of Loughmoe; C. Coat of arms of Ireland;
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.