Happy St. Patrick's Day weekend everyone. How Irish are you and where in Ireland is your heritage from?

[Buzz Rules]

Happy St. Patrick's Day weekend everyone. How Irish are you and where in Ireland is your heritage from?

As a side note, St. Patrick is one of my favorite saints and is the patron Saint of Ireland and the Archdiocese of NY.

 

[leebee]

Not really Irish at all, although I believe my grandfather's parents, or maybe grandparents, were Irish, at least one of them.

I am Irish enough to drink green beer or greena coladas, and eat corned beef, on St. Patrick's day- in other words, not really Irish at all, just an American who'll use any excuse for a celebration!

 

[tazdev3225]

According to ancestry I am 35% Irish from County Donegal. I do know my 2X great grandparents on my dad's side immigrated from there in the 1860's right after they married. My dad's father was 100% Irish but no clue where his paternal grandfather came from. I also have some Irish on my mom's side so the results made sense.

My husband never knew he had Irish ancestors. His grandmother was 100% Irish from Tipperary.

I had a lot of time on my hand during Covid and started trying to put together a family tree for him as he knew nothing about his family.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I'm descended from Potato Famine immigrants on my mother's side. I don't know which part of Ireland they came from. They came directly into the port of Philadelphia and settled pretty much in the part of South Philadelphia that I'm from. I know my great-great-great grandmother was a maid, and my great-great-great grandfather was a dock worker who joined the Union Army during the Civil War. He contracted tuberculosis during that time and died young, leaving his wife and children destitute because for some reason she was denied a widow's pension. That's all I could find out going that far back-when I was doing family history stuff there was no such thing as Ancestry and I had to look at extant records and microfilm. Ancestry is way too expensive for me to subscribe, although I'd love to.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I'm descended from Potato Famine immigrants on my mother's side. I don't know which part of Ireland they came from. They came directly into the port of Philadelphia and settled pretty much in the part of South Philadelphia that I'm from. I know my great-great-great grandmother was a maid, and my great-great-great grandfather was a dock worker who joined the Union Army during the Civil War. He contracted tuberculosis during that time and died young, leaving his wife and children destitute because for some reason she was denied a widow's pension. That's all I could find out going that far back-when I was doing family history stuff there was no such thing as Ancestry and I had to look at extant records and microfilm. Ancestry is way too expensive for me to subscribe, although I'd love to.

Ancestry usually has discounts during holidays.

 

[mjkacmom]

My great grandparents came over from Ireland, my grandmother was 1 of 8, grandfather 1 of 5. Ellis island to Jersey City, that’s where my mom was raised. I can’t remember where in Ireland, my other grandmother came over from Glasgow. My mom was Catholic, my dad Methodist, eventually the families were accepting. Made corned beef (now making corned beef hash) in honor of my Irish American family.

 

[mom2rtk]

Half Irish. My maiden name is very Irish.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

5% Ireland according to Ancestry.com, Connacht (wherever that is) I am going to have to google that to learn more.

 

[Smugpugmug]

Not really sure about the percentage. I was told that on my mom's side, there is Scottish and Irish ancestry but don't really know much beyond that. My name is Erin which is about as Irish as it gets (literally as it means Ireland xD).

 

[unrequited23]

My mom had a very Irish maiden name. She did an ancestry test and it came back with 30% Irish. So, I guess I'm at least 15%.

 

[mjkacmom]

I’m 50% Irish but knew it before dna, 25% Scottish which I also knew. My Irish grandparents had very Irish last names. My grandparents named their oldest son after my grandfather, but then named their oldest daughter after my grandmother, and then named their second daughter Mary, I wished I had asked why (usually the oldest daughter is Mary). Maybe my grandmother didn’t like her older sister Mary.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Happy St. Patrick's Day weekend everyone. How Irish are you and where in Ireland is your heritage from?

At least a quarter (my dad's side is Irish & Welsh, but there may be a little on my mom's side as well, I just don't know as much).

My great-grandmother came from Tahilla, near Sneem, in County Kerry.

 

[Buzz Rules]

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Patrick

 

[Buzz Rules]

 

[CynBeth]

My DH has Irish ancestry.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Ancestry DNA says I'm only 4% Irish in spite of having lots of O'Briens, Murphys, McGuires, etc., in my mother's line.

However, I'm apparently 41% Scottish so I think I have a lot of Scots-Irish happening. Most of my ancestors came to the US in the 1700s and eventually settled in Appalachia, which is also consistent with the Scots-Irish migration pattern.

 

[disneydreamer1980]

I’m apparently 30% Irish according to my DNA. My great grandfather on my dad’s side came over from there and we can trace our family back to the 1700s in church books there. We’re from Northern Ireland, Fermanagh. We’re starting to plan a trip to visit there in a few years. I’ve been to England but not Ireland.

 

[georgina]

100% Irish. My mother was born on a farm in County Leitrim in 1920. When she was 16 she realized her only prospect there was to marry a farmer so she got on a boat to the US (she had an uncle in Ohio to stay with).

My father’s ancestors left County Clare in the 1840’s (potato famine era) and also ended up in Ohio on a farm.

 

[georgina]

Happy St. Patrick's Day weekend everyone. How Irish are you and where in Ireland is your

As a side note, St. Patrick is one of my favorite saints and is the patron Saint of Ireland and the Archdiocese of NY.

St Brigid is also a patron saint of Ireland and finally getting her due.

 

[E&Cmom]

I have no Irish heritage. My only ties with Ireland is my dad did his undergraduate degree in Ireland. My children do have some as my mother in law who is from England has some Irish ancestry.