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McCormick is the Ulster spelling of Mac Cormaic, “son of Cormac,” most common in Antrim and Down. The collection sets the McCormick family crest on the Irish National Tartan across a woven blanket, mug, garden flag, ornament and coasters, with a license plate and T-shirt besides.
McCormick is the northern spelling of Mac Cormaic, “son of Cormac,” an Irish surname that Rev. Patrick Woulfe recorded in every part of Ireland. When the birth indexes for 1890 were analyzed, 107 of the 165 McCormick births were registered in Ulster and the name was principally found in Antrim, Dublin and Down, while the other main spelling, McCormack, was spread through all four provinces.
County Antrim is the McCormick heartland: the 1911 census counted 1,365 McCormicks there, about a third of the Irish total, with Down, Tyrone and Donegal next. The name crossed the communities of the north, Catholic and Presbyterian alike. Thomas McCormick, a Presbyterian born in County Londonderry, settled in Pennsylvania in 1735 with his Antrim-born wife Elizabeth, and their great-grandson Cyrus McCormick built the mechanical reaper. In Ireland, the Dublin poplin maker Richard McCormick became secretary of the Catholic Committee in 1789, and the Derry architect Liam McCormick designed the circular St Aengus Church at Burt, County Donegal.
The McCormick crest and Irish National Tartan appear on a woven cotton blanket, an 11oz accent mug, a garden flag, a ceramic Christmas ornament and a cork coaster set. A novelty license plate sets the crest over the Irish flag, and a T-shirt carries the McCormick name and family crest on Irish Green or Black cotton.
Follow the spelling from the Antrim registers to a Virginia reaper in our McCormick surname history and research guide.
