What parts of Louisiana have large amounts of people with Irish heritage?

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Most port cities’ jails will have their fair share of Irish.

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ETA for bullshite

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Pick up a phone book or a map of the region and look at the names. There, you’ll find names like McHenry, MacDonald and McManus. Fitzgerald and Donaldson also appear. Flip through a newspaper and you can read about the latest political volleys of the Mayos or the McAllisters. One of the major thoroughfares—Forsythe Avenue—belongs in this club, too. These names underscore a common thread shared by many residents of the region—a thread that one individual described as an “almost mystical bond” with her ancestors. For these names are all common Celtic ancestors. And for local pub owner and proud Irish-American Enoch Doyle Jeter, how these names came here is part of a grand story. “It’s one of the biggest misconceptions about how this region was settled,” says Jeter, who has spent a fair amount of time researching various migrations into this region from Ireland, Scotland and England. That misconception: that all of the Irish and Scottish settlement in northern Louisiana came via the port in New Orleans. That isn’t necessarily the case, according to Jeter.

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