MacCarthys who were once Hingertys.....
Earlier this year we were invited to contribute Hingerty YDNA results to the Munster Irish Project on FTDNA given that our little clan was originally located in that part of Ireland. Two Australian and one USA Hingerty testers joined the Munster Irish project at FTDNA. One of the Admins of the Munster Project, Nigel McCarthy had a particular interest in researching the relationship between O'hlongardail/Hingerty/Harrington lines and the McCarthys and asked if he could focus on that particular relationship. (To see this website click here ) Nigel has compared our Hingerty YDNA results to those in the MacCarthy project and in phylogenetic trees on the MacCarthy website and in emails, he has shared his insights into the relationship between the Ohlongardails and one line of the MacCarthys. In an email he explained that, " The two principal dynasties in early 2nd millennium Munster were the O'Briens of Thormond and the MacCarthys of Desmond, though they were not all conqueri...