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Current Version: 10.81

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This improved basemap may eventually be used in the Mapping Irish Surnames story: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a3b90776f4cd4052bf19e097da898f36

This map is based on work done by Kenneth Field.

Surnames from Ireland abound in the United States, even after subsequent waves of immigration from other parts of the world. According to the Census Bureau, around 33 million Americans claim Irish ancestry. That’s 10.1 percent of the U.S. population—and more than five times Ireland's current population of 6.6 million.

The abundance of Irish names in America is in large part a result of the Great Famine of 1846-49. Much of Ireland's impoverished rural population had come to depend for sustenance almost exclusively on the potato—a crop that, ironically, originated in the New World. A water mold called Phytophthora arrived from North America in 1845 and caused much of Ireland's potato crop to rot in the fields over several successive years.



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This improved basemap may eventually be used in the Mapping Irish Surnames story: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a3b90776f4cd4052bf19e097da898f36

This map is based on work done by Kenneth Field.

Surnames from Ireland abound in the United States, even after subsequent waves of immigration from other parts of the world. According to the Census Bureau, around 33 million Americans claim Irish ancestry. That’s 10.1 percent of the U.S. population—and more than five times Ireland's current population of 6.6 million.

The abundance of Irish names in America is in large part a result of the Great Famine of 1846-49. Much of Ireland's impoverished rural population had come to depend for sustenance almost exclusively on the potato—a crop that, ironically, originated in the New World. A water mold called Phytophthora arrived from North America in 1845 and caused much of Ireland's potato crop to rot in the fields over several successive years.



Copyright Text: Kenneth Field, Esri

Spatial Reference:
102100

Single Fused Map Cache: true

Capabilities: Map,TilesOnly,Tilemap

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Min Scale: 4622325.0
Max Scale: 288895.277144

Min LOD: 6
Max LOD: 11

Units: esriMeters

Supported Image Format Types: MIXED

Export Tiles Allowed: false
Max Export Tiles Count: 100000

Resampling: true

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