Quote Originally Posted by thanmuwa View Post
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......
So perhaps it is only Cork where both Marton Mills and House of Edgar match the crest. Just as well that my folks came from Co Cork, then. However, Marton Mills does use a red Background for Cork, which seems more appropriate, whereas Edgar has more green.