Irish Type III - Origins

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WDYTYA - Australia
SBS Australia has just aired a WDYTYA episode featuring Kerry O'Brien, a presenter for many years of 7:30 Report and now 4 Corners on ABC TV in Australia.

His ancestor Charles O'Brien came from Co.Clare so most likely Irish Type III. Have a look at this SBS episode at "Kerry O'Brien" I wish he would take a DNA test!

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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'	82	Galway	4	Offaly	2
Clare	40	'Ulster'	4	Monaghan	1
Tipperary	26	Dublin	2	Kildare	1
Limerick	22	Donegal	2	Roscommon	1
Cork	19	Mayo	4	Leitrim	1
Kerry	7	Waterford	2
Laois	4	Wicklow	2

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.

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