An interesting badge, which I have not come across before, thank you for posting.
There is good reason for attributing it to The Tyrone Militia.
The 4th battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, (the Royal Tyrone Fusiliers), maintained a distinctive pipers uniform from 1881 to at least 1920. Part of that uniform was a brooch for the brat which also used the motto of the order of St. Patrick. That brooch was essentially a design with a central device near identical to the cap badge of the Irish Guards (but pierced) mounted in a circlet engraved with a wreath of shamrocks with Crown to the top and "TYRONE" to the bottom in WM.
In 1908 the Bn was renumbered the 3rd (SR) Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and a version of the brooch with the numeral "III" exists but otherwise identical to the one described above.
Of the Irish Militia corps, Limerick County, North Mayo and Kilkenny were also Fusilier regiments but I have never seen anything which might connect them to this badge as the Tyrone example above does.
John
Last edited by John Mulcahy; 18-02-21 at 06:37 AM.
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