This page collects information about people with surname Adair who were known or believed to have lived in early Ireland.
Family History[]
FitzGerald Family[]
This family lineage traces back to the FitzGerald dynasty, a family of Irish-Norman warriors that played an important role in the Norman Conquest of Ireland. In about 1390, one of their descendants, Robert FitzGerald of Adair, killed a local government official and fled to SouthEastern Scotland to avoid criminal prosecution. He adopted the name of the family manor home, Adair Castle in County Limerick, as his own surname and thus became the first member of the Adair Family.
Ulster Plantation[]
From a postcard of the early 20th Century.
About 300 years several descendants of the Adair Family participated in Ulster Plantation, the Anglo-Scotch settlement of Northern Ireland. Many of these Adairs settled in and around Ballymena, in County Antrim.
Ballymena is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The Adairs were active in helping Scotch settlers settle the "Ulster Plantation" in Northern Ireland. In the 1600s Sir Robert Adair (d. 1655) built Ballymena Castle as a centre for their Irish estates. But a great portion of the Adair Family continued at their main residence in Kilhilt Tower in Wigtownshire, Scotland. For time Ballymena was renamed "Kinhiltshire".
- See Adairs of Ballymena Castle
- Links to William Adair (1565-1626) and his father Ninian Adair (1531-1608) in Wigtownshire in the 16th Century.
Notable Individuals[]
Other Notable Adairs[]
Notable Landmarks[]
Adare Castle[]
- Adare Castle, a manor house in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland. It is a great castle and the estate dates back to Norman times.
- Believed to be family home of Robert FitzGerald of Adair (1366-1445), who fled the family home her to start the first Adair Family line in Wigtownshire, Scotland.
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Adair by County[]
- Adair in County Antrim, Belfast, Ulster, Northern Ireland
- Adair in County Armagh, Craigavon, Ulster, Northern Ireland
- Adair in County Carlow, Carlow, Leinster, Easter and Midland
- Adair in County Cavan, Cavan, Ulster, Northern and Western
- Adair in County Clare, Ennis, Munster, Southern
- Adair in County Cork, Cork, Munster, Southern
- Adair in County Donegal, Lettekenny, Ulster, Northern and Western
- Adair in County Down, Belfast, Ulster, Northern Ireland
- Adair in County Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Eastern and Midland
- Adair in County Fermanagh, Enniskillen, Ulster, Northern Ireland
- Adair in County Galway, Galway, Connacht, Northern and Western
- Adair in County Kerry, Tralee, Munster, Southern
- Adair in County Kildare, Newbridge, leinster, Eastern and Midland
- Adair in County Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Leinster, Southern
- Adair in County Laois, Portlaoise, Leinster, Eastern and Midland
- Adair in County Leitrim, Carrick-on-Shannon, Connacht, Northern and Western
- Adair in County Limerick, Limerick, Monster, Southern
- Adair in County Londonderry, Derry, Ulster, Northern Ireland
- Adair in County Longford, Longford, Leinster, Eastern and Midland
- Adair in County Louth, Drogheda, Leinster, Eastern and Midland
- Adair in County Mayo, Castlebar, Connacht, Northern and Western
- Adair in County Meath, Navan, Leinster, Eastern and Midland
- Adair in County Monaghan, Monaghan, Ulster, Northern and Western
- Adair in County Offaly, Tullamore, Leinster, Eastern and Midland
- Adair in County Roscommon, Roscommon, Connacht, Northern and Western
- Adair in County Sligo, Sligo, Connecht, Northern and Western
- Adair in County Tipperary, Clonmet, Munster, Southern
- Adair in County Tyrone, Omagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland
- Adair in County Waterford, Waterford, Munster, Southern
- Adair in County Westmeath, Athlone, Leinster, Eastern and Midland
- Adair in County Wexford, Wexford, Leinster, Southern
- Adair in County Wicklow, Bray, Leinster, Eastern and Midland