Map is the location of McCain families in the mid 1800s. The group down in County Laois/Offaly (in the south) area are not part of our family, they are Mac Canna surnamed families that used the same anglicised form as we did. Our family's surname in Gaelic is Mac Eáin. The families in Donegal, Tyrone, Derry, and north Antrim, are our family. They can be connected to descendants that did DNA testing and match us. The County Laois/Offaly McCains also tested, which is when we discovered their connection to the Mac Canna families from the Loch Neagh area. The large blue cluster is in Tyrone right across the Folye River from Port Hall. I visited many of these McCains during my 2008 trip over. That is the area of highest concentration of our McCains in Ireland to this day. You can sit on the porch of a McCain home in Port Hall and look across the river to the McCain farms in Tyrone. The family migrated there from Port Hall in the early 1700s.
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