Interesting email from an Irish fellow about Irish kilts.

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Fair do's that the Irish county tartans aren't authentic - no doubt they were designed to be marketted to people like myself who are of Scots and Irish descent and want to wear a kilt which marks the Irish side of their ancestry.
I've always associated Irish kilts with being either saffron or bottle green.
I wore my County Armagh tartan kilt to visit realtives in Portadown, County Armagh earlier this month. Quite a few people in Portadown asked about the kilt, but none of them recognised the tartan as being named for their home county.
I didn't see any other men in kilts either in Portadown or while travelling there via Dublin, but nobody laughed at the kilt either, even in Dublin where many schools have adopted tartans as part of their uniform resulting in there being lots of schoolgirls to be seen wearing tartan kilted skirts.
My Irish born friend who now lives in Scotland and who joined me for part of the trip said he would be looking into acquiring a kilt in County Wexford tartan to honour his own heritage.