Connacht Ireland - Ancestry DNA Region choice

[KitCarson]

My 1st cousin, once removed aged 90 has tested with Ancestry and I am managing the results.  The test has come back 100% Irish, however both his father, mother and grandfather were born in England.  Whats that all about??

Anyway, when I look at the Regions suggested, one is Galway which I know is correct from research as they are our Dal(e)y and Grealy lines, but there is another choice which just says Connacht.  I would really like to know where our Cunninghams (he is a Cunningham) come from and I presume from this result, that it will be Connacht.  Why does Ancestry use 'Connacht' as a region description?  It would appear to be a very wide spread area in the West of Ireland?  NOT very helpful to me!

I would really appeciate some guidance.  Thanks, Kit

[hallmark]

Nothing wrong with him being born in England to Irish parents!

Nothing wrong with anyone being born in America to Irish parents!

Nothing wrong with anyone being born in Australia to Irish parents!

Nothing wrong with anyone being born anywhere to Irish parents!

[KitCarson]

Hi Hallmark, I'm sorry if my message seemed to be anti Irish.  I certainly didn't mean it to come across as such.

I was just amazed that with an English father, mother and grandfather that the result was 100% Irish. 

Anyway, thanks for your input.

Kit

[hallmark]

Why wouldn't they show Irish DNA??

An Irish couple goes to England and have a son Joe.

An Irish couple goes to England and have a daughter Mary.

Joe marries Mary.

Their DNA shows Irish, doesn't it??

[KitCarson]

I can see the logic with that, but there was absolutely no need to be so caustic.
Kit

[hallmark]

I was speaking in DNA terms, not being caustic!!

[Ruskie]

I am surprised that the results specified the region so precisely. I thought they were usually much more vague than that (eg X% "Western Europe")   

The general advice is not to get too hung up on the ethnicity results as they are just an indication rather than an exact and reliable estimate. 

[Sinann]

I'm surprised it said Galway, Ancestry tend to be very general with regions in Ireland.
It gives me West of Ireland regions although all evidence of my families points to the East.
I think because the majority of testers are American and most emigration happened from the West they default to the West coast. When I asked they said they didn't have any base data for the East.

If you want to give us some names we could try to help.

[hallmark]

The West of Ireland has always been less populated and industrialized so it is possible....