http://mctiernan.com/McTmaps.htm 11-10-2024 print in landscape mode
With 487 individual MacTighernans identified, this is an attempt
to map
the MacTighrnan families and their relationship to each other if any
exist. The below MacTighernan map shows the Genetic DNA mapping of 137
individual MacTighernans who took the DNA test that fall into 20
different,
separate, distinct and unrelated DNA groups from 13 different
countries. The 2nd map is a Geographic origin map with each of
the 137 MacTighernans positioned by longitude and latitude on their
family's original townland in a small area of Connacht if known. The
list of over 650 MacTighernans that served in their country's many wars
throughout
history, http://mctiernan.com/mwardead.htm.
The
Great MacTighernan Mysteries, http://mctiernan.com/10mysteries.htm

Below is the geographic map
of
each MacTighernan townland of origin if known. With 487 MacTighernans
identified worldwide, 137 have taken the DNA test, 89 of the 137 know
the name of
their townland of origin in Ireland and 109 of the 137 know their
county of
origin in Ireland.
Also shown are the five that only know their parish.
Location of 482 MacTighernan at time
of test or current location
|
testers
|
total
identified
|
America
|
57
|
214
|
Ireland
|
28
|
41
|
England
|
23
|
63
|
Northern
Ireland
|
4
|
18
|
Canada
|
8
|
11
|
Australia
|
5
|
36
|
Scotland
|
5
|
80
|
New
Zealand
|
1
|
5
|
South
Africa
|
1
|
1
|
Japan
|
|
1
|
Indonesia
|
2
|
2
|
Wales
|
|
4
|
1 each in
Norway, Iraq*, Zimbabwe*, Japan, Switzerland, Spain
, Thiland, Vietnam & Belgium
|
2*
|
9
|
Totals
|
137
|
487
|
Note: The below
satellite image is a jpg file so it is what you see with no ability to
click down for more information on the MacTighernan in each of the
balloons. If you run the free version of Google Earth on your
computer let me know and I will email you the Google Earth file which
will enable you to click on each of the balloons and see which
MacTighernan it is along with their other information such as DNA
Group, townland, civil parish, county and country of immigration if the
family left Ireland. The 4 white pins
are for the four historically
extent MacTighernans of Rockfield, Co Leitrim, Tullyhunco, Co Cavan,
the MacTighernans of Co Fermanagh and Mulmurry MacTernan of
Lisnanorrus, Co Leitrim. See legend below for 20 distinct DNA Groups
of MacTighernans from 13 countries. Due to
the Google Earth difficulty assigning different colored balloons with
numbers only the T3 Group has balloons, e.g.
with
number of mutations showing.
=
unknown townland, parish only
= T
Group, including the baseline and those with mutations off the baseline
[dark
blue] = Ta Group baseline:
[light blue] = Tb Group baseline:
[purple]
= the Td Group baseline
= T3
Group baseline: a
or
= mutations off the T3 Group
baseline: the letter

inside = the T3a, T3b, T3c, T3d or
T3e
Group baseline
= T2
Group, including the baseline and those with mutations off the
baseline, T2a Group is a yellow balloon
with star inside
On the satellite image below are the known original townlands of
MacTighernans spread over a 450 square mile area. Due to the
density, what looks like one balloon may actually be 2 or 3 balloons
one behind the other as some MacTighernan families originate from the
same townland or their townlands border each other. The
displayed balloons below include the 5 MacTighernans that only know
their parish. MacTighernan is used to cover all the variants of our
surname. Lough Allen is right in the middle of Co Leitrim in the
below image. The yellow line is
the border with Northern Ireland. Other web sites for our MacTighernan
DNA test: http://mctiernan.com/dnatest.htm
and http://mctiernan.com/mctiernangrid.htm
If you are a MacTighernan and want to do the DNA test let me
know michael@mctiernan.com
The test lab in Texas is at
http://www.familytreedna.com

MacTighernan Townland locations above
Michael McTiernan michael@mctiernan.com