Dunraven & Dál gCais
Preserved Research Path — Interpretation Subject to Evidence
The evidence before the explanation
The Dunraven and Dál gCais investigation remains part of QuinnGenealogy.org because the research itself produced sources, historical relationships, correspondence, pedigree material, geographic information, and genetic questions worth preserving.
The research context
Later paternal genetic evidence changed the probability of a proposed direct paternal relationship between Allen’s Quinn line and the tested Dunraven/Taylour line. That later evidence does not erase the historical investigation that preceded it. Autosomal observations associated with Donogh Óg O’Quin and Judith O’Riordan are a separate question and remain unresolved.
Direct path to the evidence
Historical pedigree material, autosomal observations, and paternal Y-DNA are shown as separate evidence streams.
What can — and cannot — be said
This pathway illustrates the governing rule of the site: new evidence may support, contradict, or supersede an earlier interpretation, but the evidence and reasoning that produced the earlier research path remain visible. A changed conclusion is part of the record, not a reason to rewrite the history of the investigation.
An observed phenomenon, an undefined hypothesis.