Located in Northern Ireland, Armagh is one of the 32 traditional counties of Ireland, as well as the historic province of Ulster. It is known as the “Orchard County” due to its many apple orchards. Ancient Armagh was the territory of Ullaid, also known as Voluntiii, Ultonians, Ulstermen, Ulidians. Today Armagh ceases to serve as an electoral constituency which began in 1983, but it remains the core of the Newry and Armagh constituency. ","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","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.","The northern region of Ulster was an ancient kingdom, and one of the four historic Provinces of Ireland. The region was mostly annexed by the English Crown during the reign of James I (1603-1625). The Province of Ulster is now","Founded in 1788, New South Wales (NSW) was the first penal colony for England. British explorer, Captain James Cook, first discovered the east coast of Australia while attempting to examine the planet Venus in order to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun in 1770, he first named it New Wales, then later New South Wales.","Grattan and the Irish Volunteer army obtained an independent parliament in 1782. Continued Irish unrest and Wolfe Tone's rebellion in 1798 led to the Act of Union in 1800 and Irish representation in British Parliament. Daniel O'Connell's agitation resulted in the granting of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s decimated the population and caused mass emigration. ","From its founding until the last prison ship set sail in 1868, Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia and over 75,000 convicts were transported there.","The First Fleet departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","Ellis Island is located about one mile southwest of Manhattan in Upper New York Bay, United States. From 1892 to 1943, it was the main immigration station for the United States of America. For many thousands of immigrants traveling en route to Ellis Island, the towering Statue of Liberty provided the first glimpse of their new home.","County Meath (Meath,Contae na Mí or simply an Mhí)
Located in the province of Leinster, County Meath is bordered by Dublin, Louth, Kildare, Offaly, Westmeath, Cavan, and Monaghan, as well as the shoreline of the Irish Sea. Known as "The Royal County," the historic Kingdom of Meath was the seat of the High King of Ireland for a time. It was also the island's fifth province, ruled for centuries by the Southern Uí Néill dynasty in the late 1100s. The seat of the High King of Ireland was at Tara. Rich with history, the archaeological complex of Brú na Bóinne in the north-east of the county is 5,000 years old. North of Navan is Randalstown which has the earliest known evidence of human settlement, Mesolithic flints, in the county.","Lancashire (Lancs) didn’t exist in 1086 for the Domesday Book but was first created in 1182, a historic, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county. Originally two separate parts which included Manchester and Liverpool along the northwestern edge of England.","The English county of Cornwall is located in the southwest of England and as of 2019 it had a population of 568,210. The Cornish People have a rich Celtic heritage and a language they can call their own. Cornwall was originally home to the people known as the Dumnonians, who were comprised of three tribes of ancient Britons known as the Veniti, the Curiovolitae, and the Asismii.","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","Wales, or Cymru a region of rugged mountains, Moors and forests, is noted for its large coal deposits. Its people are known for their strong Celtic heritage and renowned choral groups. This region was originally populated by an Iberian people, who were overrun by the Celts in the 6th century BC.","In America, those who took up arms for the Crown and fought for a United Empire longed to see the English people united under a common flag and sovereign. These largely forgotten U. E. Loyalists (United Empire Loyalists) who resolved not to live under any flag but the British flag were often driven out of the United States.","County Tyrone (Tyrone, Tír Eoghain, meaning 'land of Eoghan')
County Tyrone is one of the traditional counties of Ireland and is part of Ulster in Northern Ireland. The name Tyrone is derived from Irish Tír Eoghain 'land of Eoghan', the name given to the conquests made by the Cenél nEógain from the provinces of Airgíalla and Ulaid. County Tyrone was much larger in size, stretching as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern-day County Londonderry.","Scotland or Gaelic: Alba or Alban is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. As the northernmost country of the UK, its land mass covers more than a third of the island of Great Britain",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/bayeux1.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","","","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/county_meath.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Lancashire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/cornwall.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/island_of_ireland_tyrone.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/scotland-med2.webp",null],"mode":"f","s":"McCann","sU":"MACCANN","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/MACCANN/IR/McCann/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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