Two Fitzpatrick families and the survival of an agricultural tradition in nineteenth-century Ireland By the middle of the nineteenth century, the countryside around Pettigo and Drumkeeran in southwestern Fermanagh was divided among farms, grazing holdings and the estates of families…
The preceding study followed BY9001 across a much deeper timescale. BY9001 belongs to the old paternal landscape of the Shannon–Erne corridor and the wider northwestern Irish world, long before the emergence of the Ó Maol Phádraig surname. Within that ancient…
The history of R-BY9001 does not begin with Fitzpatrick, McDermott, Quigley, Gilroy, King, O’Reilly or O’Rourke. All of those names belong to a much later Ireland. BY9001 had already existed for thousands of years before hereditary surnames began to identify…
Mac an Leagha, the Inlow Line and an Older Learned-Family Network Part I followed Richard Tyrrell through Cork and the final years of the Nine Years’ War, ending with the four Ó Maol Phádraig yeomen recorded at Mainistir Leathrátha, modern…
A Check Against the DNA Up to this point, the DNA has deliberately been kept out of the historical investigation. That is important. Genetic genealogy can become misleading when a historical story is first attached to a Y-DNA branch and…