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MacCathmhaoil

Family Clade

Connecting Lineage & Genealogy

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History and BIG-Y DNA

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Objectives:

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1. Establish Genealogy

2. Document Lineage

3. Show Geographical overlap of Genealogy and Lineage

4. Find historical event that would trigger a Y-DNA variant connecting the Lineage with the Y-DNA tree.

5. Estimate SNP Dates and match to Lineage events.

6. Identify Y-DNA Branching Points matching the Lineage

7. Determine a Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor(s)

8. Using Y-DNA connect Genealogy to Lineage

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Anyone who has traced their genealogy, in Ireland, knows that we hit a brick wall about 1800. This is because of a lack of records before this time.

I have been able to trace my paternal line back 7 generations to 1770, in Dromore Parish, Co. Tyrone.

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During my research I have come across several sources that suggest that the McQuaid surname originated with the MacCathmhaoil’s of Cineal Fearadhaigh. I have found Lineages and history for Cineal Fearadhaigh going back to the 5th century.

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The following is an effort to connect my McQuaid Genealogy to the MacCathmhaoil Lineage, using History and BIGY-DNA.

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Galbally Lough

My McQuaid Genealogy goes back to 1800 in Tummery

Dromore Parish is #24 on the Tyrone Parish Map (next slide)

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Origins of the Surname Mac Cathmaoil

  1. Gillacrist Mac Cathmhaoil is the first Mac Cathmhaoil recorded to assume the chieftainship of Cineal Fearadhaigh. After his death, his family monopolized the position and adopted the Mac Cathmhaoil surname.
  2. From the Annals, under the year 1185:

“Gillchreest MacCathmhaoil, Son of Uladh; royal chief of the Cineal Fereadaidh, clan Aongus (Mac Cana), clan Dubhinreacht (Mac Ualgharg or McGoldrick Lords of Hy Dubhinreacht in Clogher), clan Fogarty O'Ceannfhoda (Ó Daimhín Lords of Tirkennedy in Fermanagh), and clan Colla (of Tir-Manach), and head of counsel of the North of Érinn, was slain on the 2nd of Nones (6th) of May by O'hEighnigh (O'Heaney) chiefs in Fermanagh (and Arch Kings of Airgíalla) aided by Muinter-Caemhain (O'Keenan); and they carried off his head.”

This imposing array of titles represents Cineal Fearadhaig at the top of its power. They not only dominated a large section of Tir Eoghain but also had penetrated into the heart of Fermanagh.

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  • The process of the creation of surnames was slow and continued for over six hundred years. As the population grew and new families were formed, they sought to consolidate their identity by adopting hereditary surnames of their own. Many surnames were created that are in fact offshoots of more common names. Thus, for example, the MacMahons and the McConsidines are descended from the O'Brien family, the former from Mahon O'Brien, who died in 1129, the latter from Constantine O'Brien, who died in 1193. (John Grenham 2021).

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3. From the Annals, under the year 1365:

“When Malachy of the Mac Cathmhaoil, the ruling house of Clogher, Tyrone, slew an O’Neill of Tír Eoghain, Malachy was known as 'Maelechainn Mac in Ghirr meic Mac Cathmhaoil'. Translated, his name is 'Malachy the son of the Short-Fellow Mac Cathmhaoil'. This feat of slaying an O’Neill warranted a change of name so he became Malachy mac in ghirr or simply Malachy MacGirr. Today the family is generally found as MacGirr, McGirr, McKerr and in the English version as Short.

4. From the Annals, under the year 1536:

“Hugo Mac Uaid (McQuaid) parson of Cuilmaine (Magheraculmoney Parish, Co. Fermamagh) and its vicar and vicar and parson and herenagh (Erenach) of Cell-Sgire (Kilskeery Parish, Co. Tyrone)—and he was the best parson of whom we have heard in Ireland, so that the man of poetry said:

The parson of Cell-Sgire,

Head of tribe, or of hospitality;

Spacious is the floor of his house

Goal of all the clergy

died on Saturday of Little Easter this year, (April 22nd)”

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5. From the Annals, under the year 1515:

Eoghan Mac Cathmhaoil (Eugene Mac Camoeil, Owen), Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (1505–1515). Owen, the son of Art, son of John, son of Art, Bishop of Clogher, died. He was buried in St Macartan's Cathedral. He would have approved the appointment Of Hugh MacUaid.

6. The Mac Cathmhaoil were the leading family of Cenél Fearadhaigh, of the Uí Néill. The name has been Anglicised as Campbell / Kempt, McCawl, Caulfield, McCall, Alwell, Callwell, McCowell, McCuill, Howell and MacHall. Offshoots are McGirr / Short and McQuade/McQuaid.

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To use Y-DNA to identify branches of the Haplotree, corresponding to the surnames McGirr/Short and McQuaid/McQuade, coming off of a Haplogroup containing the surnames Campbell/Kempt or the other anglicised versions of the name Mac Cathmaoil. This should be under the Variant (SNP) R-M222, in the same time frames indicated in 1-6 above.

(R-M222 is associated with the Ui Neill kings of Northern Ireland that, by legend, descended from the fifth-century warlord Niall of the Nine Hostages, including Cineal Fereadaidh.)

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The MacCathmhaoil’s ruled from Clogher.

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The Clogher Valley, known in early literature as Mag Lemma, affords the only major route between east and west Ulster. One route follows the valley westward to the fords at Portora and Belcoo; another, leaving through the Carboe gap. North of the valley the Sperrin mountains form a effective barrier almost as far as the north coast while to the south are the Slieve Beagh range and the less tractable waterlogged plain of Clones and Upper Lough Erne.

Galbally Lough is the lowest elevation in all of Ulster where the waters flows into, both, the Foyle River and Lough Erne watersheds. 322 ft above sea level on the east side, where springs break for the Owen Reagh and 316 Ft on the west side with drainage to the Kilskerry River.

The Carboe Gap has been defended by the Clogher Hill Fort and Galbally Lough by the Kilskerry Ring Forts since the 4th century, or earlier.

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The Kilskerry River originates at Galabally Lough, the lowest point on the rim of the Omagh Basin and a strategic point of entry on to the Foyle River Watershed. It flows southwest, to Lough Erne. Today, there are remains of 32 Ring Forts in the Kilskerry River Watershed. Note how the Ring Forts were situated across the river watershed form the great drumlin (“great ridge”) of Dromore Parish (Druim Mo’r), to the northwest, to the mountains to the southwest of Kilskerry Parish. Each Ring Fort gave protection to the individual family group that occupied the land around it. But the overall placement of the Ring Forts suggests they were placed to defend the low point and passage through Golbally Lough.

Galbally Lough and the Ring Fort in the townland of Galbally get their name from “Ballinegallvolly”, the Irish form Baile na nGall-bhaili’: The Ballibetagh of the foreign homesteads. Named after the Gallowglasse strategically settled here by the O’Neils.

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The Ring Fort placement, to the east of Galbally Lough, is along the river network used for transportation as opposed to a more strategic placement from highground to highground.

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Galbally Lough and the Ring Fort in the townland of Galbally get their name from “Ballinegallvolly”, the Irish form Baile na nGall-bhaili’: The Ballibetagh of the foreign homesteads. Named after the Gallowglasse strategically settled here by the O’Neils in the 13th century.

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Ireland early peoples and politics Map

Ancient Irish tradition tells us that Airghialla (or Oriel) was a territory in northern Ireland founded by the three Collas about the 4th century.

The three Collas made war with the High King of Ireland, Fiachadh, and overthrew and killed him in order to seize the Kingship for Colla Uais, which he enjoyed for four years. Muiredach Tirech, the son of the slain king Fiachadh and Grandfather of ‘Niall Mor’, overthrew the three Collas and their followers. About the year 327 the three Collas were exiled to Alba (Scotland).

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For the year 327 the Annals state, "The fourth year of Colla Uais, in the sovereignty of Ireland, when Muireadhach Tireach expelled him and his brothers into Alba (Gaelic name for Scotland) with three hundred along with them."

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Note, the border into the Omagh Basin, controlled by the Carboe Gap and Galbally Lough has been the dividing line between competing factions from before the 5th century

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The Synod of Rathbreasail , in 1111, set the Diocesan boundaries. In 1155, Pope Adrian IV, the English born Pope, issued a papal bull known as Laudabiliter. This purported to give King Henry II of England permission to invade Ireland as a means of strengthening the Papacy's control over the Irish Church.The Norman invasion of Ireland began in 1169.

The Clogher Diocese boundaries were set to approximately the same as the boundaries of Ui Chremthainn in the early 12th century.

From the Annals, 1536: “Hugo Mac Uaid (McQuaid) parson of Cuilmaine (Magheraculmoney Parish, Co. Fermamagh) and its vicar and vicar and parson and herenagh (Erenach) of Cell-Sgire (Kilskeery Parish, Co. Tyrone)

My McQuaid’s, Tummery, Dromore Parish

From Slides 5 & 6

From Slide 8

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Sub-kingdoms of the Northern Ui Neill and some of its neighbours in the

12th Century

From the Annals, under the year 1185:

“Gillchreest MacCathmhaoil, Son of Uladh; royal chief of the Cineal Fereadaidh, clan Aongus (Mac Cana, This lay in northern County Armagh between the River Bann and River Blackwater.) clan Dubhinreacht (Mac Ualgharg or McGoldrick Lords of Hy Dubhinreacht in Clogher), clan Fogarty O'Ceannfhoda (Ó Daimhín Lords of Tirkennedy in Fermanagh), and clan Colla (of Tir-Manach ie. Fermanagh), and head of counsel of the North of Érinn, was slain on the 2nd of Nones (6th) of May by O'hEighnigh (O'Heaney) chiefs in Fermanagh (and Arch Kings of Airgíalla) aided by Muinter-Caemhain (O'Keenan); and they carried off his head.”

The MacCathmhaoil’s ruled from Clogher.

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MacCathmhaoil Lineage

  1. Fiacha Srabhteine C.250
  2. Muireadach Treach C.290
  3. Eochaidh Muigh-Meadhoin C.330
  4. Neill Mo C.360; (Nial of the Nine Hostages)
  5. Eógain C.400
  6. Muire daigh C.440
  7. Feradaigh C. 480 (the progenitor of Cineal Fearadhaigh)
  8. Fiachna C.520
  9. Fiachrach C.560
  10. Edalaigh C.600
  11. Duninechaid C.640
  12. Cú Ghamna C.680
  13. Canann C.720
  14. Duinechaid C.760
  15. Cathmhaol C.800 ( Meaning ‘Battle Chief’)
  16. Máil breasail C.840
  17. Muir certaigh C.880
  18. Fagartaigh C.920
  19. Máil cholaim C.960

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20. Suibhne C.1000

21. Ragnall C.1040

22. Cú Ulaidh C.1080 (The Hound of Ulster)

23. Giolla crist C.1120 MacCathmhaoil ( the first to use the Mac Cathmhaoil surname)

24. Sitrig C.1150

25 Murchadha C. 1180

26. Donnchada C.1220

27. Cú Ulaidh móir C.1260 (The Hound of Ulster)

29. Cú Ulaidh oig C. 1300 (The Hound of Ulster)

30. Riocaird C.1340

31. Con muighe C.1370

32. Brian C.1410

33. Emann C.1450

34. Cú Ulaidh C.1475 (The Hound of Ulster)

35. Hugo Mac Uaid C.1500 (Parson of Cuilmaine (Magheraculmoney) and its vicar and vicar & parson & herenagh (Erenach) of Cell-Sgire (Kilskeery)

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1-29 From: Bart Jaski Genealogical Tables of Medieval Royal Irish Dynasties

file:///media/fuse/drivefs-5aff3c8d77d40ace18f6cd0e633c2ba0/root/Genealogy/Paternal%20Files/Ireland/Genealogical%20tables%20of%20medieval%20Irish%20royal%20dynasties.pdf

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This is one version of a list of male descendants from Niall of the Nine Hostages to Giollachrist MacCathmhaoil who is claimed as being the first to use the Mac Cathmhaoil surname, nine generations removed from the ancestor whose name he chose to bear:

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30-34 From: Dufaigh, Seosamh Ó. “The Mac Cathmhaoils of Clogher.” Clogher Record, vol. 2, no. 1, 1957, pp. 25–49. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27695443.

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Paternal SNP Profile; myFTDNA BIG-Y700; Haplogroup R-BY168349

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R-S603

R-FT74770

R-A9884, A10628, A10629, A10630, FT76892, Y59401

R-A9886, FT75237

R-BY200412

R-BY168349

R-BY187328

7 Private Variants

R-FTA57046

R-BY200365

R-BY50792

3 Campbells’s

1 Kempt

1 Campbell

2 Short’s

1 Campbell

2 Short’s

McQuaid

211 BIG-Y Kits

23 BIG-Y Kits

21 BIG-Y Kits

R-A9885

15 BIG-Y Kits

14 BIG-Y Kits

13 BIG-Y Kits

BIG-Y Results

29 Aug, 2021

C.450 AD

C.550 AD

C.1050 AD

C.1200 AD

C.1300 AD

C.1380 AD

C.1450 AD

1950 AD

1st use of Mac Cathmhaoil

Surname

myFTDNA SNP

Results

Cineal Fearadhaigh

The Mac Cathmhaoil were the leading family of Cenél Fearadhaigh, of the Uí Néill. The name has been Anglicised as Campbell/Kempt, McCawl, Caulfield, McCall, Alwell, Callwell, McCowell, McCuill, Howell, MacHall, McGirr/Short and McQuade

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R-S603

R-FT74770

R-A9884, A10628, A10629, A10630, FT76892, Y59401

R-A9886, FT75237

R-BY200412

R-BY168349

R-BY187328

7 Private Variants

R-FTA57046

R-BY200365

R-BY50792

3 Campbells’s

1 Kempt

1 Campbell

2 Short’s

1 Campbell

2 Short’s

McQuaid

R-A9885

C.450 AD

C.550 AD

C.1050 AD

C. 1200 AD

C.1300 AD

C.1380 AD

C.1450 AD

1950 AD

1. A SNP is a Variant in the Y-DNA that is passed from Father to Son. They happen on average every 2-3 generations. For the whole Haplotree, the average time between SNPs is 83 years, on the BIGY-700 test.

2. A Haplogroup is a SNP where a Branch occurs. Each haplogroup describes individual branches – or closely related groups of branches

3. Blocks of SNPs are Public Variants. The block as a whole can have branches. These SNPs have been id’ed on 2 or more tests. We do not know the order in which they occurred. They can become a Haplogroup when a new test ID’s a new branch off of it.

4. A Private Variant is a Branch that is ID’ed off an existing Haplogroup or a Public Variant (making it a new Haplogroup). They remain Private and unnamed, until a 2nd test also carries the same Variant.. If you have no Private Variants assigned to your Haplogroup, you have reached your Terminal SNP.

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R-S603

R-FT74770

R-A9884, A10628, A10629, A10630, FT76892, Y59401

R-A9886, FT75237

R-BY200412

R-BY168349

R-BY187328

7 Private Variants

R-FTA57046

R-BY200365

R-BY50792

3 Campbells’s

1 Kempt

1 Campbell

2 Short’s

1 Campbell

2 Short’s

McQuaid

R-A9885

C.450 AD

C.550 AD

C.1050 AD

C.1200 AD

C. 1300 AD

C.1380 AD

1450 AD

1950 AD

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Lineages:

Ancestry before records. Y-DNA gives insight into Lineage origins.

1600 AD

Genealogies:

With supporting records or Autosomal DNA, Lineages can become Genealogies. Irish records only go back to about 1800.

History

Annals of Ulster & The 4 Masters:

431 AD to 1540 AD

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R-S603

R-A9884, A10628, A10629, A10630, FT76892, Y59401

R-A9886, FT75237

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C.450 AD

C.550 AD

C.1050 AD

Owen

Gen. 1

Gen. 2

Gen. 3

If 3 generations between Variants (SNPs)

Patrick

Hugh

Owen

John

Thomas

Owen

One of these 4 generates the R-A9885 Variant. We do not know which one. They all have Variants R-A9886 & FT75237

Owen

Patrick

Hugh

The same scenario (ave of 2-3 Generations) happens between every set of SNPs (Variants), on the BIGY-700 Haplotree.

The exact #, and names, of sons is unknown. This is an example.

We do not know if the exact person named in a Lineage line formed a particular variant. All that we can say is that he had the upstream variants of his ancestors. His line could have died out or no descendant has tested. The downstream variants could have been formed by him or a close relative.

R-A9885

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Forming the McQuaid Family Clade

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2nd BIG-Y Test:

In order to name the Private Variants, and change them into a block of Equivalent Variants, I need to have a close relative take the BIG-Y test. Either a Brother, Son, Nephew, Cousin or Grandson

3rd Big-y Test:

In order to break up the Block of newly named equivalent variants resulting from the 2nd test and form Branches, we need a 3rd (or more) test from a 3rd-5th cousin.

1st Big-Y Test:

My Haplogroup is R-BY168349. It provided a list of SNPs and Unnamed (Private) Variants that are unique to my Paternal Profile. It also identified Variants seen for the 1st time.

The Rule of Three

Genealogical Time

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Based on 83 years between SNP’s for my BIGY-700 test

BIGY testers as of 9 Aug, 2021

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From: The Genealogist's Guide to Y-DNA Testing for Genetic Genealogy;

David Vance, 2020

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Conclusion:

  1. SNP R-A9885 most likely belonged to the ancestor of ‘Maelechainn Mac in Ghirr meic Mac Cathmhaoil’. After this point the McGirr/Short line branches off.
  2. All SNP’s in line with R-A9885 most likely belong to Cineal Fearadhaigh

and the MacCathmhaoil.

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Further action:

  1. There are 15 BIG-Y testers (29 Aug, 2021), under R-A9885. Petition them to implement the ‘Rule of 3’ to ID branches and name Private Variants.
  2. I have the following close STR matches, that have not taken the BIGY-700 test. Petition them to take the test.

Campbell- 29; McCall-3; McQuaid-6, Short-10, McGirr-1

  • Petition all of my Autosomal DNA McQuaid matches to take the BIGY-700 test.

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If your paternal line matches any of the surnames used in this study, I encourage you to take the BIGY-700 DNA test from myFTDNA.

https://www.familytreedna.com/products/y-dna#compare

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