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From: Bernard Morgan <>
Subject: Re: [R-M222] Origin of M222
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:07:05 +0000
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I have to apologies for I joined the group after the Southern Ui Neill were dicussed; so I may be going over old ground.

However what is evidence for the low percentage of M222+ plus amongst the Southern Ui Neill? I ask this question because my surname (Morgan) according to MacLysaght is either Welsh from Ulster or the anglization of Merrigan or Morahan. The two septs of Morahan mentioned have results in are not M222; which was as expected for neither sept claimed to be Connachta. As for the surname Merrigan McLysaght choices to quote Woulfe and that it is an anglization of O'Muireagain from Westmeath/Longford; namely the O'Muireagain (brief 11th/12th century kings) of Teffia, descendants of the Cenel Maine and hence members of the Southern Ui Neill. So am I a Southern Ui Neill?

The other reason for the question is that though two of my closest matches in the Y-DNA databases are from Donegal, three other claim Cavan, Kildare and Wexford as their origins. These last three locations and the matches being shown on the map at FTDNA shows equal spread of matching haplotypes to north of Limerick and Kilkenny. Why isn't this matching the map in the paper "A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland" (2005)?

Many thanks.


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