That looks like a Crane to me. As for what it symbolises, I have no idea, some ancestor of yours probably thought it looked cool.
r/heraldry will appreciate this
Fun fact Ireland never had a heraldric system similar to England or some of Europe so there was never family crests or heraldry of any type it. The heraldry we had was forced on us with the ulster plantation from England. The rest is just some good ol tourism trinkets. Like shamrocky shite, woolly jumpers and Guinness fridge magnets
A Dublin inner-city seagull with a burger it just snatched out of someone’s hand on O’Connell street.
It’s most likely a doodle that the graphic design student, being underpaid by his uncle to produce tat for tourists, thought looked nice.
99% of ‘Irish’ crests are not historically genuine. Irish social and political structures didn’t really work the way that their far more static European cousins did. Very few Irish clans had or used heraldry (typically the Hiberno-Norman families), and those that did never developed it beyond its basic function as a sort of flag.
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A puffin?
A corncrake?
That looks like a Crane to me. As for what it symbolises, I have no idea, some ancestor of yours probably thought it looked cool.
r/heraldry will appreciate this
Fun fact Ireland never had a heraldric system similar to England or some of Europe so there was never family crests or heraldry of any type it. The heraldry we had was forced on us with the ulster plantation from England. The rest is just some good ol tourism trinkets. Like shamrocky shite, woolly jumpers and Guinness fridge magnets
A Dublin inner-city seagull with a burger it just snatched out of someone’s hand on O’Connell street.
It’s most likely a doodle that the graphic design student, being underpaid by his uncle to produce tat for tourists, thought looked nice.
99% of ‘Irish’ crests are not historically genuine. Irish social and political structures didn’t really work the way that their far more static European cousins did. Very few Irish clans had or used heraldry (typically the Hiberno-Norman families), and those that did never developed it beyond its basic function as a sort of flag.
The indeginous lama heron burglar.