The ePodunk map shows U.S. cities with the highest percentages of people of Irish ancestry. Learn about cities with Irish genealogy and find in-depth community information about the Irish ancestry cities.
The Irish have come to America since the earliest days of European settlement. Irish settlers moved to Maryland and Virginia in the early 17th century.
The great wave of immigration, however, occurred between 1820 and 1920, when about 4.7 million Irish moved to the U.S. Many were driven from their homeland by the potato famine of the 1840s.
In the 2000 census, 30,524,799 people in the U.S. claimed Irish ancestry.
ePodunk mapped the top communities by percentage of population. The map and the following list show communities in which 1,000 or more people listed an ancestry group, and in which at least 25 percent of those people said they were of Irish ancestry.
The links at left lead to information on other ethnicities.
Sources: 2000 Census, U.S. Census Bureau; Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, ed. Stephan Thernstrom; The Irish in America, ed. Michael Coffey; Irish Boston, Michael P. Quinlan; Ancestry: 2000, U.S. Census Bureau (June 2004); ePodunk
Mapping by Daniel Shorter
-- October 2005
Famous Americans of Irish Ancestry:
· Andrew Jackson, president
· John F. Kennedy, president
· Davey Crockett, frontiersman
· Eugene O'Neill, playwright
· William Kennedy, author
· Annie Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller
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The ePodunk map shows U.S. cities with the highest percentages of people of Irish ancestry. Learn about cities with Irish genealogy and find in-depth community information about the Irish ancestry cities.