 At the time, they constituted the majority of the townspeople.<ref>Portarlington, Grant Family Online</ref>

One of the more notable Huguenot descendants in Ireland was Seán Lemass (1899–1971), who was appointed as "Taoiseach", serving from 1959 until 1966.With the precedent of a historical alliance - the Auld Alliance - between Scotland and France; Huguenots were mostly welcomed to, and found refuge in the nation from around the year 1700.<ref></ref> Although they did not settle in Scotland in such significant numbers, as in other regions of Britain and Ireland, Huguenots have been romanticized, and are generally considered to have contributed greatly to Scottish culture.<ref></ref> John Arnold Fleming wrote extensively of the French Protestant group's impact on the nation in his 1953 "Huguenot Influence in Scotland",<ref></ref> while sociologist Abraham Lavender, who has explored how the ethnic group transformed over generations "from Mediterranean Catholics to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants", has analyzed how Huguenot adherence to Calvinist customs helped facilitate compatibility with the Scottish people.<ref></ref>

A number of French Huguenots settled in Wales, in the upper Rhymney valley of the current Caerphilly County Borough.The community they created there is still known as "Fleur de Lys" (the symbol of France), an unusual French village name in the heart of the valleys of Wales.