Party Per Pale Argent and Azure, in the first an eagle dimidiated and displayed Sable in the second issuant from the partition an arm embowed and vested, the hand holding a sword erect, all Argent These arms approximate rather closely to those of the Schottenkloster, or Gaelic monastery, founded in Regensburg, Bavaria in the 11th century. The arms are recorded as such on a map of Galway dated 1651, now in the library of Trinity College Dublin.
The coat of arms of Connacht displays a vertically dimidiated black eagle and armed hand.
