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For example, the Irish name Ó Flaithbheartaigh is Anglicised as Flaherty, Flaffery and Flaverty in Connacht, however due to the aspiration of the 'F' in Ulster Irish, it is Anglicised and recorded as Laverty and Lafferty in Ulster thus the F variants have been excluded. The same for Flynn outside of Ulster, which is Lynn in Ulster.
As of 2014, Irish Americans made up 22.8% (some estimates have it more in the 30%-45% range)of the population of the metropolitan Boston area—the highest percentage of any of the 50 most populous U.S. cities—and 21.5% of the population of Massachusetts. [93] Many cities and towns on the South Shore of Massachusetts have high percentages of ...
Map showing principal Irish surnames at the commencement of the 17th century. Clans of Ireland is a modern organization that was started in 1989 and has eligibility criteria for surnames to be included on their register of Irish clans. This includes that the family or clan can trace their ancestry back to before 1691 which is generally ...
3 Small cities, towns, and villages. ... The city with the highest Irish population is Boston, Massachusetts. ... List of U.S. cities with large Irish-American ...
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
List of Irish clans in Ulster This page was last edited on 7 May 2024, at 02:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The following places in countries other than Ireland are named after places in Ireland. Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland. The following place names sometimes share strong ties with the original place ...
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts ) which is the smallest official form of government.