Quote Originally Posted by O'Callaghan View Post
So, probably both use the colours of the crest, which from what you say is the same for the city and the county. I wonder if this might also be true of some or all of the other 31 counties? It would be exhausting to look at them all.
Well, a brief eyeball comparison of this page and the edgar tartan page mentioned above shows quite a few differences. For example, Wexford (purple and yellow are the predominant county colours, whereas the tartan is national colours, more appropriate to Offaly), Tipperary and my own county of Westmeath all seem quite different, Offaly should really be almost the same as the national tartan but it is oddly different, Dublin colours are really some lovely shades of blue with red and yellow on the crest which could have made a lovely tartan, but the edgar tartan is green, brown, red and black (and IMHO horrible) .... in short there seems to be little if any correlation......