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  1. Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of Ulster Scots people (predominantly Ulster Protestants) who emigrated from Ulster ( Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their ancestors had originally migrated to Ulster mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England ...

  2. This is a list of notable Scotch-Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. The Scotch-Irish trace their ancestry to Lowland Scottish and Northern English people, but through having stayed a few generations in Ulster .

  3. U.S. counties by the percentage of their population self-identifying Scotch-Irish or American ancestry according to the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2013–2017 5-Year Estimates. Counties where Scotch-Irish and American ancestry combined are greater than the United States as a whole are in full orange.

  4. Scotch-Irish Americans are American descendants of Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their ancestors had originally migrated to Ulster mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England in the 17th century. In the 2017 American Community Survey, 5.39 million reported Scottish ancestry, an additional 3 million identified ...

  5. Scotch-Irish Americans. Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of Ulster Protestants who immigrated from northern Ireland to America during the 18th and 19th centuries, whose ancestors had originally migrated mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and northern England (and sometimes from the Anglo-Scottish border ). [5] [6]

  6. Apr 20, 2021 · The Scots who left Scotland to live in Ireland, at the encouragement of the English government, whose descendants eventually became the Scotch-Irish who would leave Ireland to live in America, were Protestant. All in all, about 2 million people with Scotch-Irish roots left Ireland for America. We don’t often really understand how our ...

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  8. Scotch-Irish Americans are American descendants of Ulster Protestants who emigrated from Ulster to America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their ancestors had originally migrated to Ulster mainly from the Scottish Lowlands and Northern England in the 17th century. The term Scotch-Irish is used primarily in the United States,

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