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Home About Events Registrations Membership More Welcome. We are the Appalachian Highland Celts According to Caroline McEldowney the Tennessee census bureau states that one in five Tennesseans cantrace their roots directly to the ScotsIrish settlers of the 18th century. Most of these settlers are ofUlster ProtestantPresbyterian stock who were forced under British rule to flee their country. So claimsBilly Kennedy who has researched the topic and written about it in his book The ScotsIrish in the Hillsof Tennessee.