As of 2006, it has a population of 1,172,170 people, and contains the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. These","England<\/strong> 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.","From its founding until the last prison ship set sail in 1868, Van Diemen's Land<\/strong> was the primary penal colony in Australia and over 75,000 convicts were transported there.","The First Fleet<\/strong> 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.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz<\/strong> aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia<\/strong> 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.","County Donegal (Donegal, Contae <\/b>Dhún na nGall<\/b>)<\/b><\/span><\/span>
Part of the province of Ulster, County Donegal, has also been known as County Tyconnell (used 1922-1927). The name came from the town Donegal meaning ‘fort of the foreigners.’ Once home to the Clann Dálaigh, better known in English as the O’Donnell dynasty, around 1600, they were one of Ireland’s wealthiest and most potent native families. In 1585 the modern County Donegal was shired by order of the English Crown; however, full control was achieved after the Flight of the Earls in September 1607. During the Great Famine in the late 1840’s County Donegal was the worst affected part of Ulster.<\/span><\/span>","Ireland<\/strong> 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. ","County Tyrone (Tyrone, <\/b>Tír Eoghain, meaning 'land of Eoghan')<\/b><\/span><\/span>
County Tyrone <\/b>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<\/b> was much larger in size, stretching as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern-day County Londonderry.<\/span><\/span>","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","This historic county of Yorkshire <\/strong>(County of York) is located in Northern England and is the largest in the whole England and the United Kingdom. Full of large stretches of countryside including well known Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and the Peak District it is now surprise it was nicknamed “God’s own Country”.",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\/castle1.webp","","","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/county_donegal.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/island_of_ireland_tyrone.webp?pos=floatRight","","\/cdn\/webp\/i\/kb\/200w\/Yorkshire England.webp?pos=floatRight",null],"mode":"f","s":"McGlone","sU":"MCGLOIN","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"\/dpreview\/MCGLOIN\/IR\/McGlone\/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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