I think you will find that when Ancestry say Irish they often mean Scottish! They certainly did in my brother's case - he was 39% Irish according to them. We have no known Irish ancestry but lots of Scottish and a lot of googling produced the info that Ancestry lump certain Irish and Scottish DNA together.
Extremely misleading in my opinion
As for not matching where you would expect to - if you can rule out obvious illegitimacy then the answer is that you and the other person did not inherit any of the same genes from the common ancestor, so your DNA relationship is lost forever, unless you can triangulate with someone who matches a bit of yours and a bit of the other person.
Meant to say - my brother was contacted by someone WO had a match to our tree. Not only could we not find one single name or geographical location uncommon with her tree, her tree itself is such an inaccurate load of tripe it wouldn't be any use anyway, too many 3 year old grandfathers and 100 year old mothers, you know the sort of thing.
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Last edited by Olde Crone; 09-12-16 at 20:56.
Reason: Afterthought
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