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popeye1250 -> RE: Ancestry (2/10/2008 3:12:19 PM)
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I did all the geneological research to get my dual US/Irish citizenship.
My mother's people ("McDonoughs" and "Faheys') came from Sligo, Ireland in a place called "Ballymote".
Her grandparents came from there and were farmers and there are still relatives living on that very farm and one of them is a dead ringer for one of my cousins.
My paternal grandparents came from Donegal and were like most up on the Innishowen Penninsula, farmers.
Lots of "Lafferty's" "McLaughlin's" and especially "Doherty's" in the family up there.
My grandmother's birth certificate listed a "Rose Doherty" on her maternal side and a "Mary Doherty" on her paternal side as the grandmothers. lol
I was in Buncrana getting gas one time when I was over there at of course "Doherty's Store/Gas" and told the lady behind the counter that story and she laughed and said; "Aye! We're all Doherty's up here!"
They still say "Aye" for "yes" up there.
And of course you can see the Viking/Scottish influence up there with all the redheads. It was the Vikings who established Dublin, in Irish it means "black pool" or something like that. Maybe someone in here knows the Irish for it, it's something like "Baille Athai Claithe"?
My last name "Porter" is Scottish and they probably were "Scottish Planters" who came over to Ulster during the Jacovite wars.
My grandfather was from Buncrana, Donegal and my grandmother from Moeville, (Breeda Glen) Donegal just outside Derry and they both immigrated to Boston around 1913 when they were 16 y.o. alone and met in the Boston area. They didn't know one another in Ireland.
And they both had that jet black hair and ice blue eyes which is common up in that part of Ireland. My father had that too but I only got the eyes, and my mother's brown hair.
"Dun na Gal" (Donegal) means in Irish, "fort of the foreigners" so there were no doubt Viking settlements in that area especially along the coasts.
And as they say, "before 1670 all Scottish Kings were Irish", there being much intermingling between the Scots and the Irish.
I would imagine that some of my "Scots/Irish" ancesters probably immigrated to Kentuckey, Tennessee and West Virginia in the 1700's and "made Ishkavarna"? whiskey ("The water of life.")
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