Irish Counties

Index of the

British Militia and Volunteers

     Links lead to a dedicated regimental or battalion page. Regular infantry regiments with territorial links to Militia and Volunteer battalions are shown in boldface. Within each county, regiments are presented in traditional order of precedence: cavalry, artillery, engineers, infantry.

     Note: Upon independence of the Irish Free State, six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster remained in the United Kingdom as "Northern Ireland": Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone. Ireland did not have Territorials (Volunteers) in the British Army prior to 1947.

     Some elements are not listed here:

• Modern county reorganisations (1970s and later). All regiments are listed under traditional counties.
• North Irish Horse, South Irish Horse, Ulster Artillery, and Ulster Defence Regiment since their county coverage was so extensive.
• Consecutively numbered artillery regiments after 1920 (see Index of Territorial Artillery).
• Artillery regiments (post 1967) which preserve county regimental identity at the battery level.
• Yeomanry and infantry volunteers after their conversion to artillery, engineers and signals.