Classify People from Cork in Ireland: Do they look Celtic?

**Grace O'Malley** · 05-31-2019, 07:40 AM

I'd be interested in people's opinions on this. Cork is apparently one of the areas of Ireland that is least British genetics wise (although this is only by small margins). These are just some images from a first search so really the first images that have come up. Is there something distinctive about them? What other populations are they closest to in looks?

**Blondie** · 05-31-2019, 07:43 AM

Keltic-nordid, Atlantid types, they look very celtic

**Grace O'Malley** · 05-31-2019, 07:57 AM

That should be enough. How do they compare to other Europeans?

**Creoda** · 05-31-2019, 08:49 AM

Do you detect any difference in looks between Irish regions Grace?

**Grace O'Malley** · 05-31-2019, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by Creoda

Do you detect any difference in looks between Irish regions Grace?

Yes there are some subtle differences. There seems to be more of the Keltic Nordid types in the more southern counties while the western areas have more rounded and softer features but that's just a generalisation. Also Dublin and surrounds is more pan Northwestern European looking.

Some pictures of Dublin people.

Had to throw in a picture of Jack Gleeson who attended Trinity College

**Deneb** · 05-31-2019, 11:11 AM

I can't tell Irish people from British people. They look the same to my eyes.

**Huckleberry** · 05-31-2019, 11:38 AM

Mostly Keltic Nordids and Atlantids

**Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas** · 05-31-2019, 11:53 AM

The "Celtic" designation is quite independent of genetic markers, I would say that Celts are associated with the R1b Atlantic subgroups instead:

Iberian - haplogroup R1b-DF27;
Alpine - haplogroup R1b-U152;
Brythonic or Anglo-Saxon/Frisian - haplogroup R1b-U106 ;
Gaelic-Atlantic - haplogroup R1b-L21.

But to answer your question, they do fit perfectly in what most people would consider present day and age Celts to look like. I can't think of any other ethnic group with such levels of light skin pigmentation, fair hair and red hair mutation and freckles.

A few of them also make me think of white North Americans - not only your other British Isles neighbours - which is indicative of the significant Irish genetic footprint left in the new continent.