Mrs. H.,

The Clan Doyle web site in Australia has a nice listing of Irish family tartans:

http://www.doyle.com.au/tartan_irish.htm

Of the Irish tartans, the oldest, according to what I have read are:

The Ulster Tartan
The Tara (Murphy) Tartan

The Ulster was found in a peat-bog in the 1950's, and dates from the 1600's, whilst the Tartan Tartan was first listed in the "Clans Originaux" collection in Paris in the 1880's.

There is also the Oriel, the Connaught, and the Clodagh tartan for historic areas in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. Most of the Irish county tartans were designed in 1996 by the House of Edgar, but that shouldn't take away from their appeal.

I like the Mayo, Cork, Donnegal and Ulster myself.

Nice to meet you by the way! :mrgreen:

Slainte,

Todd