Ancient population · Neolithic

Ireland (Early Neolithic–Middle Neolithic)

Ireland_EN_MN

Ireland (Early Neolithic–Middle Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ireland_EN_MN), with 5 samples from Ireland, dated to c. 3660–3590 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to England (Neolithic), France 1 (Middle Neolithic) and Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MN; the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a (4); its mtDNA haplogroups include U5b (2), T2c, U8b and V.

Period
Neolithic
Date
c. 3660–3590 BCE
Country
Ireland
Sampled near
Poulnabrone 53.01, -8.94
Sites
Poulnabrone (3)
Ashleypark
Parknabinnia
Samples
5
Catalogue
Ireland_EN_MN.SG variant

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Sardinia NSardinia_N4.84
2SardinianSardinian5.48
3Croatia NCroatia_N8.56
4Basque SouleBasque_Soule9.55
5Basque Navarre NorthBasque_Navarre_North9.56
6Basque SpanishBasque_Spanish9.82
7Basque Navarre CenterBasque_Navarre_Center9.93
8Basque BaztanBasque_Baztan9.95
9Basque GipuzkoaBasque_Gipuzkoa9.96
10Spanish La RiojaSpanish_La_Rioja9.97

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

4 men with a call

mtDNA

5 individuals with a call

Individuals 5

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
ASH3.SGM3764-3534 calBCEAshleyparkI2a1a1b1 I-FT344600T2c1d1
PB357.SGF3654-3528 calBCEParknabinniaU8b1b
PN02.SGM3706-3521 calBCEPoulnabroneI2a1b1a1a1b I-Y3712U5b1c1
PN112.SGM3704-3529 calBCEPoulnabroneI2a1b1a1a1 I-L1195U5b2b
PN13.SGM3708-3529 calBCEPoulnabroneI2a1a2 I-Y3104V