My cousin traced our ancestry to washing up on the shores of northern Ireland after the disaster of the Spanish Armada. I guess some finally got back to Spain.
Just a wee bit o Scott-Irish ping! ;~}
That whole Spanish Armada thing is a whole load of exaggerated crap. The majority of the Armada who crashed off the Irish coast were killed and those who survived made their way back to Spain...not mix and marry with the native Irish. The Spanish comes in more with pre-Reformation Galway which had strong commercial connections with Spain. The whole thing about "black Irish" being descended from the Armada is a fallacy. They're descended from the pre-Celtic inhabitants who did make their way from Spain centuries before Christ (the Milesians)or the Firbolg. It reminds me of the story of when you see a supposed relic of the True Cross----if you put all the relics of the true cross together, you could probably rebuild the Spanish Armada.