DNA: 21 - List of individuals in this site linked to DNA Y Haplogroup FGC28340

R-FGC28340 became a separate haplogroup around 1300, during the very end of the Middle Ages. The most recent member with this mutation being born around 1550, well and truly in the Modern Age.

The 'parent' haplogroup of this R-FGC28340 has a high Irish contingent so it is relatively safe to say that this group were Irish in Ireland.

If your ancestors are in this group, during their time, the Norman conquerors and Lords of Ireland were in decline.  The first Papal Tax started in 1302-1307 and was like a Domesday Book of Ireland.  Gaelic lords attacked Norman English lordships but often failed due to the armoured Norman knights.  Tactically, the Irish changed to guerrilla attacks and many chieftains regained territory.

Famines were repeat occurrences, but when The Black Death (The Plague) arrived in Ireland in 1348, the Irish in isolated rural areas faired better than most English and Normans in the towns.  The English controlled areas shrank back to the 'Pale' around Dublin.

For most of the generations of this haplogroup, the English were pre-occupied with fighting the 100 Years War with France, this led the way to a Gaelic resurgence.  The Hiberno-Norman lords became more Irish than the Irish themselves and began to side with the native population.  English were even banned from speaking Gaelic, wearing Irish clothes or inter-marrying.  Then the English occupiers of Ireland were again diverted by their Wars of the Roses (1460-1485) so, they delegated supervision of Ireland to the Earls of Kildare.

In England Henry VIII in 1509 and breaks away from the Pope in 1536 turning his kingdom Protestant, but the Irish remained Catholic. At this time, the later generations of this haplogroup would have seen the first full conquest of Ireland by Protestant settlers from Great Britain.  This was part of a policy of making Ireland subordinate to London government and actively promoting sectarian animosity.  The clan or sept-based social structures were made ineffectual compared to the monarchical state administration and septs crumbled. 

John Dowling lived in Clonreher Castle, Laois.  Was he in this haplogroup?

England's King Henry VIII deposes the Irish lords and declares the Kingdom of Ireland in 1542... and he is their king - he asserts his authority with soldiers and gifts of land to his supporters.

Most people tested with this connection come from Ireland.

Because 'Test Takers' are most likely still 'Living' they will not show on the website, so this list is their most recent deceased ancestor (what I call a test 'Proxy'). It then looks for all of those who are linked to the DNA-Y haplogroup of R-FGC28340.