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What is the name for north Ireland?
The province which forms the entire geographic north of Ireland is called Ulster. It has nine counties. There is also what is called Northern Ireland which is most but not all of the province of Ulster. It contains six of the counties of Ulster. The most northerly point on the island of Ireland is in Ulster but is not actually in Northern Ireland. It is in county Donegal, one the three Ulster counties that are in the Republic of Ireland and not in Northern Ireland.
Is the whole of Ulster part of Northern Ireland?
Ulster has 9 counties. Only 6 of them are part of what is called Northern Ireland. In fact, the most northerly point of all of Ireland is in Ulster, but in one of the 3 counties that is not in Northern Ireland.
What is the most northerly point of Ulster?
The most northerly part of the Irish province of Ulster is Malin Head in county Donegal. It is also the most northerly point on the island of Ireland.
What is the northern part of Ireland?
There are different answers to that question. The Irish province of Ulster, containing 9 counties forms the geographic northern part of Ireland. There is also what is known as Northern Ireland, which is made up of 6 of the 9 counties of Ulster. Interestingly, Malin Head in county Donegal, which is the most northern point of the island of Ireland is in Ulster, but in one of the 3 counties that are not in Northern Ireland.
What is another name by which Northern Ireland is known?
It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Ulster. Ulster is a province of Ireland that includes the 6 counties of Northern Ireland, (Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Down, Armagh, Derry) and the counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan which are in the Republic of Ireland. It is sometimes referred to as The 6 counties. It is sometimes referred to as the north, with the rest of Ireland being referred to as the south. This is not geographically corrrect as Donegal, one of the other 3 counties of Ulster that is not in Northern Ireland, contains the most northerly point on the island of Ireland.
Is Donegal in southern Ireland?
If you mean southern Ireland as a reference to the part of island of Ireland that is not Northern Ireland, then yes. The term "southern Ireland" is an incorrect and inaccurate reference to what is more commonly known as the Republic of Ireland. If you mean geographically, then the answer is no, as the most northerly point on the island of Ireland is Malin Head in county Donegal. County Donegal is in the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland. See the map at the link below which shows the counties of the Republic of Ireland in green, and the counties of Northern Ireland in a tan colour. You will see that Donegal is in the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland, and that it has the most northerly point on the island of Ireland.
What is Ulster?
Ulster is the most northern of Ireland's 4 provinces. Ulster is made up of 9 counties, 6 of which make up the country of Northern Ireland; hence the reason why Northern Ireland is often referred to as Ulster.Ulster is a province not a country.The 9 counties of Ulster areAntrimArmaghDownFermanaghLondonderryTyroneCavanDonegalMonaghanThe first 6 make up Northern Ireland with the remaining 3 some of the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland.................................1 island2 countries4 provinces32 counties
Is Boyd an ulster scot name?
There are many Boyd's in Ulster. Most of whom originated in Scotland. There are no specifically Ulster-Scots names as such but if the name is in Ireland and the family can be traced back further to Scotland then those people are likely to be Ulster-Scots.
What province of Ireland does Northern Ireland mostly include?
Most of the Irish province of Ulster is in Northern Ireland. 6 of its 9 counties make up Northern Ireland, with the other 3 being in the Republic of Ireland.
Does northern Ireland or the republic of Ireland occupy most of the island of Ireland?
The Republic of Ireland (Eire) occupies most of the island of Ireland. The island has 32 counties split in to 4 Provinces; There are x6 counties which make up the province of Ulster (since 1922) which is referred to as Northern Ireland.
What is the area of Ireland that is independent of Great Britain called?
Most of the island of Ireland is independent of Britain as the Republic of Ireland. Only six counties of the province of Ulster in northeast Ireland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Which Ulster county was not planted?
Ulster is one of the four ancient provinces of Ireland, incorporating counties in the present Irish Republic and province of Northern Ireland. "Planting" refers to the former British government practice of settling Protestants (mostly from Scotland) into the north eastern area of Ireland, with the intention that these Protestants would spread throughout the country and weaken the Catholic influence; it failed as the majority remained in the north east. With the eventual granting of independence to Ireland, the Ulster counties of Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone voted to form a new province, called Northern Ireland, whilst the Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan elected to be part of the Republic. Most of the Protestants in the North erroneously equate the province Northern Ireland with the term "Ulster".
