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The Barrets are definetly "post-invasion" along with the Walshes. Just to emphaise Mike's point on the surname in Irish the name Walsh is Breathnach which literally means "Welsh man" -- obviously emphasising the original meaning of word British/Breton. The name for the welsh language in Irish...

Except of course that Mac surnames have just as much chance as been Irish as scottish, after all it literally means "son" in Irish & Scottish Gaidhlig

Woulfe regards Friel as a variant, obviously in this case though they have seperate ancestry, but both descend from seperate men who would have had similiar firstnames. As for Gallagher, well at the minimimal it means "Descendant of a man whose first name was Gallchobhar" -- now as to why he...

Gall = Foreigner Gal = Valour Here's an extract from DIL (Dictionary of Irish language -- covering old and middle Irish periods) In this case Farrell means either "man of valour" (fear = man) or as I see in some texts a corruption of what is written fíor (very) in modern Irish. -- thus...

Probably the largest single group of migrants into Britain since early Modern times have been the Irish. At the moment there are about 6 million people living in Britain who have at least one Irish grandparent (and thus eligble for Irish citzenship), when you fact in historic migration over the...

A very large proportion of those who are in the Ireland project would be classes as "Scots Irish"/"Ulster Scots" in ancestry. Given the large scale migration during the 18th century from the province of Ulster to North America it's hardly surprising. DNA testing is relatively rare in Ireland, I...

Just to point out the recent Y-Chromosome study on Iranian populations actually found some men who would be classed as "Haplogroup IJ*" (M429+, negative for all subclades). Dienekes posted about this study on his blog...

Prendergast like a lot of Cambro-Norman's often became heavily gaelicised and adopted most of features of Irish society. This is particulary evident in the like of Mayo. Where the Burkes (De Burgh) of Mayo even went so far to rotate their "kingship" between the four branches of the family and...

As Razyn has pointed out there is a new SNP above Z196 that is known as DF27. Richard Rocca did an analysis of 1000 genomes data from Iberia and posted it on World Families.----SNP FrequencyDF27+ 44.4% (12 of 27) ... DF27* 14.8% (4 of 27) ... Z196+ 25.9% (7 of 27)...

As far as I known R1a-L664 marks what is known as the "NorthWestern branch" of R1a. Which appears to be marked by DYS388=10 According to post here, L664 was found in irish person http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2011-08/1314070421 R1a-Z284 seems to be specifically...

According to latest draft tree from ISOGG Z93* = R1a1a1h* http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpR.html Perhaps he mistyped. Here's a fairly recent version of his R1a tree taken from R1a project site. http://i1127.photobucket.com/albums/l625/ft-d/R1a-ch.jpg

Mike,I don't really know a huge amount about Sub-Roman Britain, other then bits I've read in different places, likewise for wider history of Wales. "Men of North" implies the area that Eochaidh mapped above. Some of the most important early Welsh poems/sagas are placed there. For example the...

Well that whole area is what's known to the welsh as "The Old North" it was Brythonic speaking before the arrival of angles. Edinburgh been site of a major location for the kingdom of Gododdin. Most of eastern lowlands thus fell to Angles over subsequent centuries until of course they were...

Well from doing some googling I see some calcuations on TMRCA for L513 as: 2692 ybp with the TMRCA for L193 been 1081 years. Of course the same page it gave TMRCA for L21 (all) at 4135 ybp The advantage of testing for SNP's and testing positive is you narrow down the field considerably...

David, I could be wrong on this but I think I recall L193 been mostly found in men with Scottish/scottish border surnames. According to FTDNA draft tree it's under L513. I would think your best option would be to order both. If you turn up L193- there is still a chance of been L513+ Here's a...

it will be interesting to see what "sub-clades" of L21 show up in Spain. I know for example that Z253 was found in two Latin American samples from 1000genome project (1 from Colombia, other Mexican-American). Given that Z253 has been found over a very widespread (it's above L226, "Irish Type IV"...

This map has nothing what so ever to do with Vikings. It shows MESOLITHIC sites some of which date up to 9,000 years before the arrival of the Vikings in Ireland.

Not to be too pedantic but "Northern Ireland" is completely within the province of Ulster. However it's a subset of Ulster (eg. 6 out of 9 counties) the rest of the province is in the Republic (Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan). Either way dealing with ancient haplogroups such as I2 and modern political...

How many of the Irish U152 had native Irish surnames? In general U152+ samples from Ireland tend to have a high level of non-native surnames. Eastern Ireland of course having the highest input from the 12th century AD onwards. The Pale been the area around Dublin. Thence to be "beyond the pale"...

I used the labels that Busby use in the spreadsheet. The point of the map is to show each of their discrete geographic points. Personally I would have thought that NW would have been somewhere like Cumbria so I was surprised when I put the co-ordinates in and got Leeds. As a result I regard...