Eric Schultz / The Huntsville Times -- Dion Kilgore and Diane weiss, with The Sports Page Lounge throw out beads in their Irish green during the 34th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade through downtown Huntsville, Ala. Thursday, March 17, 2011.
If you're looking for the luck of the Irish, you may want to head to Cullman County.
Cullman County - best known for its Oktoberfest celebration of Bavarian heritage - boasts the highest percentage of those with Irish heritage in Alabama, according to new data from real estate site Trulia.
Using data from the American Community Survey, Trulia said 12.4 percent of the population in Cullman County report Irish as their "primary ancestry." That's the highest amount in the state and one of only three Alabama counties above 10 percent.
The other two are Cleburne (11.4 percent) and Clay (10.4 percent) counties.
Other notable percentages include:
Shelby County - 8.4 percent
Mobile County - 6.8 percent
Baldwin County - 8 percent
Madison County - 6.6 percent
Jefferson County - 5.6 percent
Montgomery County - 2.8 percent
And the most Irish area in the country? That would be the Boston metro area, where more than 25 percent list "Irish" as their main heritage.
You can check out the entire map with county totals here.
Source: http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/03/erin_go_bragh_yall_alabamas_3.html
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