My DNA was noticed
noticed by a researcher named "bernie". Bernie is very good at tracing ancient lines
and interpreting dna results. He had met
take a "Big-Y" test to further refine my results. Y-DNA offers you a father to son direct dna
pass, m-dna does mom. Big Y fully maps out the chromosome sets so guys like
Bernie can understand it further.
A lot of the DNA
connections ( Y-Paternal as well as 'cousin' matches ) put me in line of the
Kilgarvan Healy-Rae's. Not exactly
Healy-Rae since the Healy-Rae name wasn't
used until the 1940's by Jackie-Rae Healy, but up their ancestor
chain. Jackie Healy-Rae's father,
Daniel, and my great-grandfather Dennis were brothers. Ancestry says Jackie Healy-Rae and are are
1st Counsins 1x removed. Michael
Healy-Rae, is my 2nd cousin 1x removed.
See Michael Healy-Rae in action re DNA here -
http://www.dailyedge.ie/michael-healy-rae-late-late-3294284-Mar2017/
.
According to Donal
Healy's book "The Healy story: Oidhreacht mhuintir Ui Ealaithe"
(
http://amzn.to/2mEbBEr ) ( good luck getting a copy )the Kilgarvan
Healy's are rumored to come from Donoughmore during the penal times after
killing a tax collector. Over the
mountains (maybe they even used Healy pass), across the bay, and start farming
in Kilgarvan.
Bernie's DNA
research clarifies the klans and how long they've been there. If you're interested in getting in touch with Bernie ping me and I'll forward
your email to him via the comments below.
Re my DNA I am
I-PF6497+ which is apparently under the I-P37 subgroup and the I-M26
haplogroup.
Highlights from
Bernie's notes. Fascinating stuff!
According to Wikipedia, the Healy-Reas are Healys from
Kilgarvan, Kerry. Several Kilgarvan Healys belong to the I-M26 paternal
haplogroup and they are some of the closest matches to my Cullen family, with a
common ancestor estimated at 1200 years ago according to Big Ys This
mainly Irish branch is called I-Y15581 and includes families named Cullen,
Carbery, Healy, Hurley/Murley, Crowley and one family named
Felce/Felch/Phelps/Phillips that is English or Welsh, and also one man born in
Iceland who believes his ancestor was an Irish slave according to the Iceland
histories. Probably the Y-DNA ancestor of all these people arrived in
Britain/Ireland sometime between 5,000 and 4,000 years ago, the next closest
Y-DNA relative lives in Sardinia. So it's a very Irish branch, and maybe the
Healy-Raes belong to it.
https://www.yfull.com/tree/I-Z27396/- Close big Y matches
are Healy, Cullen, Crowley, and Felch. Estimated common ancestor 3800 years
ago.
- Crowley and Felch
families are related to two other Irish super-families: the
Cullen/Knox/Carbery/Carberry/McCarbery/Donohue family and the
Healy/Haley/Spain/O'Donoughue/Dwyer family. The Healy family is from Kerry
and Cork. The Cullen/Carbery group and
the Healy group are quite closely related to each other..
- More distantly, all
of these Irish/Welsh/English families are related to an anonymous man living in
Sardinia, he was part of a scientific study and he is known by the
code ERS256272. The common ancestor between the Irish families and the
Sardinian man is calculated to have lived 5400 years ago. The Sardinian man and
the Irish men are all PF6947+ and they also are positive for Z27396 and 8
additional SNPs.
- For many years
people speculated that the I-M26 group in Ireland, Sardinia, France etc
represented the "megalith builders" spreading their culture around
the Atlantic parts of Europe. I thought this was very fanciful, and I thought
it was equally likely that my I-M26 ancestors had been in Ireland even longer.
But this match with the Sardinian man seems to show that our ancestors were not
in Ireland 5400 years ago, instead they were in Sardinia, or more more likely
somewhere like France or Spain. And our paternal ancestors seem to have arrived
in Ireland over 4000 years ago. So it now seems certain that our particular
branch of I-M26 was not among the earliest hunter gatherers to arrive in
Britain and Ireland, but instead came later, and in fact could have been part
of the people who built the megaliths.
