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The 1901 Irish Census showed 589 people surnamed Welsh. Of these 52% were

Protestant especially in Down, Antrim, Monaghan and Dublin.

The Catholic Welshes were more evenly distributed throughout the country and may have originally been Walsh, which is the 4th most common name in Ireland.

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Wales is a country to the west of England. It's kind of between England and Ireland.

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Wales is from an old English word meaning foreigners

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