One of my Irish lines is clear. Matthew Taft came over from County Louth in the 1720s.

An Irish tartan is on my wish list, but down a ways...but which County Louth?

Not sure which mill makes which fashion tartan...but this tartan



Looks way too much like my Ireland's National that I already own to invest in a look alike.

And this County Louth tartan



looks way too busy for my taste and the purple and green combination don't appeal to me.

And, so far, all I've been able to find are swatches of the two versions, no pics of finished kilts.

My Taft line is at the great grandparent level. Its well known and well documented, and I'd like to honor it...but with a tartan I didn't feel weird in or that wasn't a duplication.

Perhaps if the Irish fashion tartans were better known I'd have first invested in a County Louth tartan kilt in green and gold rather than the Ireland's National tartan kilt. Would have solved the problem.

Oh well...the pondering continues. For me, kilt ownership brought with it a tendency to ruminate over tartans.

Ron