Talk:Counties of Northern Ireland

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[edit] Arms

What are these arms of? I know that in English heraldic tradition, they would be granted to the county councils, rather than physical territory, but I don't know if Irish heraldic tradition would follow English here. Morwen - Talk 07:47, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Five of them are the arms of county councils granted in the 1950s to 1960s. Armagh county council never got a grant, and the ones shown on the page are those of Armagh UDC/The modern Armagh City council. This seems to be adopting GAA practice as the county team use the city's arms.

There is a habit among the manufacturers of souvenirs to call these the "county arms", which they aren't. Seeing as they are the arms of local authorities and not of "counties", and they no longer pertain to any local authority I'll take them off the page. If somebody wants a page on arms of Northern Ireland county councils, like the English page we can put them there.

Lozleader 08:39, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Am I right in saying then that the arms exist separate of the GAA, who seem to be the only body to use them? (Although the arms have been removed from this page I presume we're talking about the same ones that are on the individual county pages). beano 16:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

Would it not be more useful and more aesthetically efficient to have the maps zoomed in a bit to show more detail, eg by removing the Republc of Ireland counties since this is an article about the Counties of Northern Ireland? beano 16:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Bit late, anyhoo, I don't really see the reason for having all the counties listed here with their introductions. I think we could completely remove them from this page altogether, keeping the first paragraph and table of the counties section. « Keith ^t/_e» 17:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Former County Londonderry?

"County Coleraine which was formed from the merging of the former County Londonderry"

Was there a former County Londonderry, as opposed to the current one? NotMuchToSay 14:42, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Don't know what happened to that section, no there wasn't. It should have been the other way round. « Keith t·e » 15:19, 15 April 2007 (UTC)