Hi Torzio,
Thanks for your response and attachments.
The Powells and I are grouped separately on the FTDNA Haplogroup T project which was disappointing when I first received my results.
The following was gleaned from different sources which had me hopeful in a Powell connection....and, in turn, maybe an ironclad connection to Wales:
"The first of the family who came to Ireland with Robert FitzStephen at Strongbow's invasion was Philip Walsh, who was called by the Irish, "Brannagh" (or the Welshmen). The son of that Philip and Eleanor was Hayle Walsh, builder of "Castle Hayle" or "Castlehoel" in the Walsh Mountains."
"....Patronymic name of Howel who was the son of Philip the Welshman that was in the Cambro-Norman Invasion of Ireland."
"Howell is said to have completed the first construction of Castlehale variously called Castle Hoel, Castle Howell, Castle HOYLE. These names alluded to the manor of a main branch of the WALSH (Welshman) family in County Kilkenny up to the time of Cromwell (c1653) when they were wiped out."
"Powell is a
surname of
Welsh origin. It is a patronymic form of the Welsh name hywel (later
anglicized as Howell), and the prefix "ap" meaning "son of", together forming ap Hywel, or "son of Hywel"."
(...my Walsh family was from St. Mullins parish, Co. Carlow which is right across the Barrow River from Kilkenny.)