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Origins

The following chart shows the Counties that participants say their earliest ancestors came from. This shows the origin of the cluster appears to be somewhere in the counties of Clare, Limerick or Tipperary.

'Ireland'
349
Mayo
5
Dublin
2
Clare
96
Waterford
5
Monaghan
1
Tipperary
52
'Ulster'
4
Kildare
2
Limerick
45
Kilkenny
5
Meath
1
Cork
37
Laois
4
Leitrim
1
Kerry
13
Donegal
2
Sligo
1
Galway
13
Wicklow
2
Longford
1
Rosscommon
7
Offaly
2
Wexford
1



Origins

My paper, A Set of Distinctive Markers Defines a Y-STR Signature for Gaelic Dalcassian Families, proposing that the origins of Irish Type III are Dalcassian has been published in the Spring 2009 edition of Journal of Genetic Genealogy, www.jogg.info

It is available for download at www.jogg.info/51/files/Wright.pdf

The data supporting this paper can be downloaded from:- Supplementary Data.