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County Crests

  • 04-03-2011 12:11am
    #1
    clonmel1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭


    Hi

    is the Cork County crest copyrighted?

    i know the new dublin one is, but the old one isnt.

    what about the other counties does anyone know?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    By "new Dublin one" I think you are referring to the GAA county logos rather than the coat of arms of the counties. In fact the GAA county logo was never the same as the County Dublin coat of arms which featured a raven.

    The old GAA county logo for Dublin was based on the Dublin city coat of arms which is no longer publically used by Dublin City Council either - since 2003 or so they've used a logo instead too with a stylised version of the old coat of arms.

    The point is the GAA county logos are not the arms of the counties and although in some cases they closely resembled them, in other cases they never were (Kerry being another county that have always used a logo). Kildare used to use a crest that bore little resemblence to the Kildare County Council coat of arms - now they use a stylised logo too.

    I think, following Dublin's examples, all the GAA county boards now use copyrighted logos. Some of these continue to look like arms (Dublin etc) some (Kildare and Kilkenny chiefly) are quite clearly modern logos and have no pretence at being arms.


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