Unsure if they were called Offaly/Laois before the act, but thatâs what the act is referred to today anyway.
Plantation towns such as Durrow and Portarlington are somewhat different in layout/content to your average Irish town. Portarlingon seems to have many 18th century French style housing, largely due to French Huegenot Protestants settling there. Durrow with its large green in the middle of the town is your archetypical Planter settlement.
A lot of Protestant names in Offaly and a tonne of them in North Tipp too, particularly in the Borrisokane, Cloughjordan and Roscrea areas.
Woodlock, Hammersley, Stapleton.
This shit needs to stop
Ger 'em out,
Out out out
Ger 'em out
Stapleton arrived in Ireland with the Normans. So it is actually of Old English/Catholic stock.
Protestant names Iâve come across in North Tipp would include Fairbrother, Bond, Seymour, Emerson.
Unsurprisingly, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan have the highest percentage of COI/Presbyterian population.
Wicklow and Carlow are next in the rankings.
A famous Laois GAA name too.
Hughie is a Huguenot.
Our own Chairman Tan is from Carlow
Surprised Kilkenny arenât in top 3.
Ireland and Portugal are on the same time zone 
Sure South Africa are only an hour ahead.
And the Canaries.
Clare has the lowest.
The Gerlock factorâŚ.
Too much marginal land. Not a place Protestants would choose to put down roots back in the day.
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