How Irish am I? | MyHeritage DNA Test

[@souptime8635]

I recently gave a DNA test to a wine bottle. The result said that it was 79% bottle, 1% Italian, and 20% Cork.

[@ipadair7345]

nice one

[@philiporeillycork]

😂

[@max__pain]

Fellow Corkman here, I put my 23andme results into MyHeritage and it gave about 93% Irish, 6% Italian and 1% Baltic.

[@JamesKerLindsay]

Amazing! I recently did mine with 23andMe. 99.9% British and Irish. Was expecting a little bit of Irish (I knew I had a Protestant great great grandmother from Dublin), but it turned out to be a lot more than I expected. I got a strong match with Belfast, but a surprising amount also from across the West: Kerry, Clare, Galway, Leitrim and Donegal! Fascinating stuff! Doubt I’ll ever know the real story, but it was a nice surprise! 😀🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@GeographyWorld]

Nice! It is really fun and interesting to see the results for the first time. Now I really want to know where my part Iberian came from.

[@realhawaii5o]

Great seeing you here Mr. Ker-Lindsay!

[@Simonmc78]

Do a test with ancestry

[@Jgab602]

Celtic people came from Iberia to the British isles so that's probably why you have it!

[@Simonmc78]

in Ireland we dont use the term the Britsh Isles just an fyi

[@servantofaeie1569]

The Gaels did but not the Brythons.

[@realhawaii5o]

I did one of these and got 100% Portuguese. I am Portuguese. Checks out.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

Iberian should not be suprising ,Therehas been lots of trade betweeen ireland and iberia going back to the neolithic ,even dingle gas some spanish style houses

[@spiralmapping9899]

I'm 99% Irish, otherwise I'm just Western Europe

[@felixperes8698]

Quite a lot of Celtic people have Iberian dna as we descend from the Iberian peninsula many hundreds of years ago I believe, before forming a new identity in the British isles…

[@cowlo9990]

The iberian is probably from the french that you said. If you look at the dna results from french people they are most of the time at least 30% iberian. The french is just a mix of germanic, celtic and roman dna. French people have sometimes blue eyes, blond hair but also, brown eyes and dark hair which shows the genetic range.

[@vascoespañol]

basques going to ireland

[@vascoespañol]

@Síofra Loughlin Its not the armada is a neolitic invasion from basques

[@SteyWick]

I am 81% Scandinavian (born Swedish), got 17% finnish and got 2% irish. May be the vikings who brought home irish girls?🤔

[@Males.are.lowest.]

Funny thing.Not only norse men who has slaves and married on them,some norse women has irish male slaves and some married on them But anyway,i think its from gauls.continental celts and germanics were allies against romans and they mixed with eachother.

[@Johnnycasshh]

Myne came back 93.9 % Irish, Scottish, Welsh, 3.2% Iberian and 2.9% Italian. I was born in London England.

[@jasonjoseph8700]

There was iberian neolithic farmers in wales and Ireland look it up,it's probably not recent,unless you know something I dont

[@jasonjoseph8700]

@@thehittite6536 mediterranean neolithic farmers came from turkey,years later they came up through iberia,Spain and Portugal mixing with iberian then some went up to British isles

[@cjon6898]

What area is your accent from?

[@GeographyWorld]

I have a Cork accent even though I don't think that I have a very strong one.

[@LeeTheKnight]

My mothers side is completely Irish & her maternal side is from Cork and also has mysterious Iberian DNA I have 3-4% my mother has nearly 10% we guess her mother would have had a sizeable chunk of Iberian too.

[@easytiger6570]

If your mother has 10% and your father 0% you are supposed to have 5%

[@LeeTheKnight]

@@easytiger6570 It doesnt work like that. From the 50% of her DNA that I got I could potentially get 0-10% of her Iberian. I dont get 100% of everything she has because I still get 50% from other parent.

[@Doyle_Lorean2105]

Did a test with my heritage as well awhile ago now, got 94.2% irish (Cavan, Leitrim and northern ireland), and scottish. 3.6% finnish which I have no clue where that comes from, and 2.2% Italian, and again where did that come from.

[@Simonmc78]

do an ancestry test. much more accurate as the Irish database is bigger etc. worth noting if you do a test with ancestry you can then upload your raw ancestry dna file to myheritage for free. 2 for the price of 1

[@danielbronson9066]

Not as Irish as Conan.