Northern Ireland

From Familypedia

Northern Ireland is the portion (about one-sixth) of the island of Ireland that remained in the United Kingdom at the partition in 1921. The six counties — Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone. occupy the north-east corner of the island, and comprise six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster. The counties have no current administrative functions but are regularly used to particularise locations.

The remainder of the island became the Republic of Ireland, loosely known as just "Ireland".

Many of our categories and other pages take Ireland as a whole because it was not formally divided for most of its genealogically-relevant history. Contributors are welcome to create pages and categories dealing with one or other part exclusively where there seems to be value in the distinction.

---

This page is a "stub" and could be improved by additions and other edits.