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  • 12-04-2013 11:12am
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    ONeill2013
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    I've always wondered how this worked, I know from old maps that Ireland was divided up into kingdoms like Ulaid and Northern Ui Neill, etc and then even smaller territories within them but was everyone in a specific area closely blood related? If a woman married a man of a different clan/surname as it is now, would she have to change clans?


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    Neutronale
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    ONeill2013 wrote: »
    I've always wondered how this worked, I know from old maps that Ireland was divided up into kingdoms like Ulaid and Northern Ui Neill, etc and then even smaller territories within them but was everyone in a specific area closely blood related? If a woman married a man of a different clan/surname as it is now, would she have to change clans?

    Good write up in wikipedia...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_clans


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