O'Neill (Name)
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern GKYKGRGW.
Part of the O'Neill tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2663
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1999 — O'Neill (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
For anyone with the name. The colours reflect the Green and Saffron of Irish heritage. It's not known which colour is supposed to be saffron - possibly the scarlet. Strathmore Woollens weave. - 01/01/2000 — O'Neill (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed for the wedding of Timothy Powers O'Neill on 27th May 2000. It incorporates the traditional Irish colours of saffron and green along with the red that is prominently featured in the O'Neill crest. For use by anyone with the name O'Neill. Originally woven by Strathmore Woollen Co Limited. Very similar in construction to the O'Neills at STR #3248 and STR #3251.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1999 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4824
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2663
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2663
Thread count
W/12 G10 R10 G90 K8 LY48 K8 G/10
One full sett is 370 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s8/w6g5r5g45k4ly24k4g5~x2/