I apologize, I read it that some Irish, in an attempt to create an identity, copied Scottish Traditional. That the Scottish tradition predated the attempt by a few nationalist by several hundred years.

The pipers have no distinctive features of dress. Just hang a kilt around his middle, and throw a bedgown over his shoulders, and he decomes an Irish piper. Even the traditional Irish caubeen is less that a century only.

The only tartan that could conceivably be a traditional Irish tartan, the Ulster, was worn by a Scot and was likely woven by a Scot as well. The only reason that the Irish tartans are around in for Scottish weavers and kilt makers to sell to plastic patty's.