Ancient population · Neolithic

Ireland (Early Neolithic)

Name: Ireland (Early Neolithic) (Ireland_EN)
Creator: Genoplot

Ireland_EN

Ireland (Early Neolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Ireland_EN), with 4 samples from Ireland, dated to c. 3800–3750 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · Switzerland_LN, Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · CHE_LN and Megalithic (Neolithic, England); the nearest living populations are Sardinia N, Sardinian and Croatia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup I2a (3); its mtDNA haplogroups include H1, K1a and U4a.

Period: Neolithic
Date: c. 3800–3750 BCE
Country: Ireland
Sampled near: Poulnabrone 53.05, -9.14
Samples: 4
Published in: CassidyBradleyNature2020
Catalogue: Ireland_EN.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.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · Switzerland_LN`Switzerland_LN`	1.03
2	Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · CHE_LN`CHE_LN`	1.10
3	Megalithic (Neolithic, England)`England_N_Megalithic`	1.20
4	Ireland (Late Neolithic)`Ireland_LN`	1.28
5	Ireland (Middle Neolithic) · Ireland_MN`Ireland_MN`	1.36
6	Scotland (Neolithic)`Scotland_N`	1.40
7	Switzerland (Late Neolithic) · LN`LN`	1.45
8	England (Neolithic)`England_N`	1.52
9	SE Iberia CA (Chalcolithic, Spain)`Spain_SE_Iberia_CA`	1.59
10	Megalithic (Chalcolithic, Ireland) · IRL_Megalithic`IRL_Megalithic`	1.64

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	3.43
2	Sardinian`Sardinian`	4.66
3	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	8.31
4	Basque Soule`Basque_Soule`	9.31
5	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	9.35
6	Basque Navarre North`Basque_Navarre_North`	9.55
7	Romania N`Romania_N`	9.56
8	Basque Spanish`Basque_Spanish`	9.75
9	Spanish La Rioja`Spanish_La_Rioja`	9.79
10	Basque Navarre Center`Basque_Navarre_Center`	9.81

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

3 men with a call

I2a1b1a1a1 I-Y3709 2
I2a1b1a1a1b I-Y3712

mtDNA

3 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

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.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`PN04.SG`	M	3946-3653 calBCE	Poulnabrone	I2a1b1a1a1 I-Y3709	H1
`PN05.SG`	M	3944-3651 calBCE	Poulnabrone	I2a1b1a1a1b I-Y3712	K1a
`PN10_PN113.SG`	F	3945-3656 calBCE	Poulnabrone
`PN107.SG`	M	3932-3653 calBCE	Poulnabrone	I2a1b1a1a1 I-Y3709	U4a2f