RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA
Mac Donnell
Mac
Donnell
or Mac Daniel or
O Donnell of Co. Fermanagh
/ Irish / Mheic Domhnaill
(World Mighty). (Descended from a son of 102.Donnell),
who was
the
King
of
Clan Kelly.
The most important
Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim
Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch
Siol Daim Argait
Ui Cremthainn
Clan Ceallaigh
Sept / Family branch,
who had their territory at Lisnakea in
Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of the
Ulster Province
and were kinsmen to the
O Flanagans
/ Ui Flannagain
who had their territory nearby in
Co. Monaghan
in
Southern Ulster
descended from Flanagan O
Donnell.
Ancestors:
*86.Cairbre Liffeachair the
117th King of Tara / Ireland.
87.Eochy /
Echu Doimhlen,
88.Colla
Da Crioch
-
of the Two Countries,
89.Rochadh.
90.Deach Dorn, 91.Fiach
/ Feig
who had a brother
91.Labhradh the direct male ancestor of the
O Laurys
/ Ui Laury,
and another brother 91.Brian the direct male line ancestor
of the O Briens
/ Ui Briain of Arcaill,
89.Criffan
/ Criomhthainn
Liath
- of the Grey Hair the ancestor of the
O Griffins / Ui Criomhthainne
of Ulster
who was the King
of Orghialla
/ Oriel
(Southern Ulster and
Co. Louth),
who was aged when St. Patrick came to
Ireland for the second time
who assisted
*91.Leary
/ Laoghaire the
128th King of Ireland,
89.Conall Corc
the
Heberian 1st King
of Munster,
Daire the Prince
of Ulster,
St.
Patrick, St. Benignus and St. Carioch to review the records and the
Brehon Laws of the kingdom. He also had 5 sons,
90.Fergus
Ceanfhada - a Learned Man the direct male
line ancestor of the O Kennedys / Ui Ceanatta,
90.Lewy
/ Lughaidh the direct male line
ancestor of the O Lughaidh
/ Ui Leithrinn,
90.Murray
/ Muireadach the
ancestor of the Mac Brocks,
90.Aodh
/ Eochaidh
the ancestor of the
O Slevins, 93.Eochy
/ Eochaidh
the
King of Orghialla
the ancestor of the Mac Nenys
/ Mheic an Eanaigh
who was baptised by St. Patrick soon after he arrived in
Ireland,
and one of his sons
St. Donart
/ Domhanghart founded 2 churches, one at
Maghera on the northern side of Slieve Donard in
Ulster, and one on the
mountain summit in the mountains of Mourne. His brother
93.Carrol
/ Cearbhall
was to become the ancestor of the O Carrolls
the Kings of
Orghialla down to the 12th Century AD,
93.Eochy's other son,
94.Cairbre an Daimh Airgid -
a Learned Man of Wealth was the King
of Orghialla who died in
513 AD, who had many sons, 95.Cormac
the ancestor of the Ui Cormaic,
including the Maguires, 95.Nadsluagh
the ancestor of the Clann
Nadsluaigh, including the
Mac Mahons
of
Ulster,
95.Fearach, 95.Fiacha, 95.Loingseach, 95.Brian,
95.Dobhron
etc, and
95.Daimhin the
King of Orghialla
the ancestor of the Siol Daimhin
who died in 566 AD, after whom Devenish island /
Daimhin Inis in Loch Erne is named near Enniskillen
in Co. Fermanagh,
where St. Daimhin his
descendant founded Devenish Abbey on the island. He also had many sons
including, 96.Fearach
his eighth son the ancestor of the O Devers, O Divers, O Dwyers, O Feehans, O Lahins, O
Lehane, O Lanes / Ui Leathain,
O Broads, O Larkins, O Malones, Orrs,
and 96.Cumascach the
King of Orghialla,
Another son,
96.Tuathal Maol Gharbh
had 2 brothers
96.Lochlann
the ancestor of the
O Davins, O Devins (Clann Daimhin) who represented
the Clann Daimhin up
to the 14th Century AD as the Princes
of Co. Fermanagh
when the Maguires
who were
also from the same
Sept took over, and it became Maguires' Country,
and
96.Clochar after whom Clogher
in Co. Tyrone
derived its name because he had founded a college there,
96.Tuathal Maol Gharbh's
son, 97.Tuatan had
2 sons,
98.Baodan
the ancestor of Cosgry
ancestor of the Mac
Cuskers, Cosgraves, Conans, Mac Coonans Boylans, Carberys, Cahills, Corrigans,
Donnellys, Gavans etc and
98.Maol Duin the father of
99.Toole / Tuathal the
father of 100.Kelly /
Ceallach the ancestor of the
Clann Kelly
of
Co. Fermanagh / Ulster.
He
had 5 sons, and the fourth son,
101.Murtaugh is the ancestor of the O Dongans, O
Donnegans, O Dunegans, O Keenans, O Morgans,
O Merrins, O Rogans, etc.
Another son, 101.Colga
became the ancestor of the O
Colgans
of
Ulster and the father of
102.Donnell the direct male line ancestor of the
Mac Donnells from the
Clann Kelly.
and the father
of 103.Fionnachtach
who had 3 sons,
104.Congal,
104.Foghartach the ancestor of
O Cairns / Kearns, Donnellans, Flanagans etc
- all of
Ulster,
His other son,
104.Art
is the father of 105.Lochlan,
a brother of 105.Donnell
the ancestor of the
O Harts,
and his son
106. Teague Mac Donnell
was the first to use their surname,
who became the father of 107.Fearmarcach the
direct male line ancestor of the Mac Markeys,
Horsemans, Knights, Ryders, Ridings and
Rydings / Ui Marcaigh,
the father of; 108.Teague the father of;
109.Flanagan. Mac Donnell
of
Co. Clare / Mac Donnell of Co.
Derry /
Irish / Mheic Domhnaill.
A Sept /
Family branch, who had their territory in
Co. Derry in the north -
east of the Ulster Province.
Mac Donnell
of
Co. Cavan / Irish / Mheic Domhnaill
A Sept / Family
branch who had their territory in Co. Cavan in
Southern Ulster in the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui
Briuin Breifne kingdom of
East Breifne.
Mac Donnell of
northwest Co. Clare /
Irish
/ Mheic Domhnaill.
Gaelic Milesian
Irian
Clann Rory
Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in the west of
Co. Clare
and nearby in Co. Limerick
in
the north - west of
Thomond / Northern Munster, who were poets to the
Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain
Sept.
They were Chiefs
of
Corca
Baiscinn, descended directly from their
Chief,
Baiscin,
and had their territory in the Baronies of Moyarta and Clonderlaw / Barony of Ibrackan? They
were kinsmen to
the O Loughlins,
the
O Connors
of Fear Arda
the
Chiefs
of Corcomroe,
the
O Baskins, the
O Mulcoras
and the
O Kellys also the
Chiefs
of
Corca Baiscinn.
Ancestors: *62.Rory
Mor
(Clann Rory) the
68th King of Tara / Ireland,
Mac Donnell
of
Kilkee
in
Co. Clare / Irish
/ Mheic Domhnaill.
Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn
Colla
Mac
Uais Sept / Family branch, who had their territory at Kilkee in
Co. Clare
in the north - west of
Thomond / Northern Munster
who are from the same Colla
Mac Uais
Sept as the Mac Donnells
/ Donalds
of Co. Antrim in
the north - east of the Ulster Province. which
see. Ancestors:
120.Sir
Alexander
/ Alasdair Carragh Mac Donnell
of Kilconway and Moye, who died in 1634 AD,
121.Sir
James Mac Donnell
of Eanaigh and Bally Bannagh who died in 1688 AD, who married
Mary O Brien
and produced 6 sons of which his sixth son
122.Daniel Mac Donnell
was deprived of his share of the Estates in
Co. Antrim
and migrated to Kilkee in
Co. Clare
where he leased Estate from his kinsman, Lord Clare and died in 1675 AD,
123.James Mac Donnell
his son, was a Captain in Lord Clare's Dragoons in France and had Estates in
Co. Clare, Co. Limerick and
Co. Longford,
and died in 1714 AD.
124.Charles Mac Donnell,
his son, was at Kilkee. 122.Daniel's
eldest son 123.John
Mac Donnell
was at Moyne in
Co. Clare, was the father of
124.Charles
of Moyne the father of
125.Timothy the father of
126.Michael
of Kilrush the father of 127.John
Mac Donnell who was
born in 1805 AD and was at Fairy Hill in Co. Clare
and died in 1886 AD.
Mac Donnell or
Mac Donald
or Mac Connell of
Co. Antrim
/
Irish / Mheic Domhnaill. Chiefs
of Glencoe.
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Colla
Mac
Uais
Sept / Family branch, from the
Clann Donald
who are descended from a son of
107.Donald
the Lord of the Isles in Scotland
who were the most powerful
Clann in the Scottish
Highlands. After originally migrating from
Ireland they
settled at Argyle
(The Land of the
Gael) in the Scottish
Highlands, and the Hebrides.During the reign of Malcolm 1V
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn"northern"
Ui Niaill King of Scotland,
Sorley /
Somerled / Somhairle Mac Donald
was the Thane
of Argyle
whose descendants were the Lords of the Isles / Hebrides
and Cantire
/ Cantyre who was
also allied
with the Norwegian Earls of the Orkneys, Hebrides and the Isle of Man.
In 1211 AD their Chiefs who were
the sons of
Randal Mac Donald, the son of
Sorley, who were accompanied by Thomas Mac Uchtry / Mac Guthrie / Guttry
a
Chief of Galloway and 76 ships and their followers,
besieged the territory held by the Anglo - Norman de
Mandevilles / Mac Quillans in the Routes in
Co. Antrim
in the north - east of the Ulster Province and set up
there. They
besieged Co. Derry and
Co. Donegal and created settlements in
Co. Antrim and along the
coast of the
Ulster Province.
They settled mostly in
The Routes
and
Glynns
of the previous Heremonian
Ui Conaire
kingdom of
Dal Riada
in Co. Antrim with their main seat at
the Dunluce
Castle, and eventually were to form alliances with the
Irish Princes in
Ulster, marrying into the the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel Conaill O Donnells
of
Co. Donegal, the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel Eogain O Kanes of Co. Derry,
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Mac Mahons of Co. Monaghan,
the Heremonin Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain O Neills of Co. Tyrone
and Clannaboy. Under increased pressure from the
Scottish King
they came again from the Hebrides to Ireland under
Sorley Boy Mac Donald
/ Donnell
also in the 16th Century AD into Co.
Antrim, where they
had many battles against the Mac Quillans who they drove out, and would eventually become
the Catholic Earls of Antrim in the Glynns under James 1st. They acted as galloglasses / mercenaries
in the Ulster Province and the
Connacht Province. Although they were by then of Scottish - Viking blood they were originally of
Gaelic Milesian
Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh
Dal Cuinn Colla Mac Uais
Irish
Celtic ancestry, descended from the
*88.Carioll
Colla Mac
Uais from the
kingdom of Orghialla / Airghialla
/ Oriel
in
Southern
Ulster
and nearby in
Co.
Louth in the
north - east of Northern Leinster.
Sorley
Boy
/
Somhairle Buidhe
Mac Donnell
took over a large territory in
Co. Antrim,
including the English Dunluce Castle, that is now in
ruins, situated on the high rock - on the sea next to the Giant’s Causeway at Bushmills. It had been previously held by the de Mandevilles the
Anglo - Norman
Barons who
had
Gaelicized
their name to Mac Quillan /
Mheic Uillin. Sorley
Boy Mac
Donnell then had to struggle with the English to
hold onto the Castle, which is today held by the Government in trust. At
Bo na Marghy
friary on the River Marghy at Bally Castle in
Co. Antrim
there is a Mac Donnell
tomb, while their first residence is west of there in Dun Ayne Castle. In 1620 AD, his
son a Catholic Scottish Highlander,
116.Sir Randall mac Sorley Mac Donnell was created
the 1st Catholic Earl of Antrim.
Ancestors:
*86.Cairbre Liffeachair
the
117th King of Tara / Ireland
the father of; 87.Eochy
/ Echu Doimhlen
the father of; *88.Carroll / Carioll
Colla
Uais the
121st King of Tara / Ireland,
(who was the younger brother of
Murray /
Muireadach Colla Da Crioch).
He was to be the father of;
89.Eochy
/ Eochaidh who had 2 brothers,
89.Rogain the ancestor of the
O
Fiachrys, Mac Uais etc. and the
O Rowans
/ Ui Roghain, and 89.Fiachra Tort the
ancestor of O Flinn of Tuitre in the Baronies of
Toome and Antrim, the O Gurneys / O Gernon
/ Ui Geuranaigh, the O
Dubhdera, O Bassils. O Caseys
etc. He was the father of
90.Earc
/ Eachach the father of
91.Carthan
the ancestor of the Mac Cartans
/ Mac Carthainn of Loch Foyle
who had one daughter
and
6 sons,
92.Earc, 92.St. Teresa, 92.Murray / Muireadach,
92.Forgo, 92.Ailill / Oilioll,
92.Leary / Laoghaire
and
92.Tren.
This was a very noted pious Family.
92.Earc
was to be
the father of 93.Fergus the father of
94.Gofrith the father of
95.Main the father of 96.Niallgus the
father of 97.Suibhneach
the father of 98.Meargach
/ Ineargach the father
of 99.Solam
/ Solomon the father of
100.Giolla Adhamhnan
the father of
101.Giolla Brighde the
father of 102.Sorley
/ Samhairle / Somerled in 1140 AD who was the
8th Thane of Argyle, Lord of Cantyre and the
Hebrides who founded the kingdom of the Isles and was married to Sabina the daughter of
Olad - the Red the King of the Isle of Man / Insula Mevania,
and gained the Isles and the Isle of Man. He also had a brother
108.Dubhgall
who is the ancestor of the Mac Dowells.
His son was 103.Randal
the
Lord of Oergeal and Cantyre who founded the Cistercian Monastery and was the
benefactor of the Paisley Abbey whose daughter married
Aed
O Connor, and he also had a brother,
103.Alexander,
and his son was 104.Aengus
/ Aeneas the Lord of the Isles in 1211 AD the father of105.Donnell / Domhnaill
the father of 106.Alexander the father of
107.Donnell the direct
male line ancestor of the Ui / Mac Domhnaill
the
Lords of the Hebrides and Cantyre in
Scotland and
the Chiefs
of Glencoe who also anglicized as
Danielson
and Donaldson.
He had a brother,
107.Alexander
who is the ancestor of the
Mac Donnells
of
Ulster Province, and another brother,
107.Rory the ancestor of the
Mac Rorys / Rogers / Rodgers.
His son was
108.Aongus
/ Aeneas
Mor Mac
Donnell the Lord of the Isles married to
? Campbell
and had a brother
108.Alastrum
/ Alexander the ancestor of
the
Alexanders / Mac Alisters, Sanderson. Saunders
and the Mac Sheehys,
His son was
109.Aeneas Oge Mac Donnell who fought at Bannockburn
in 1314 AD for Robert / The Bruce the King of Scotland. He had an older brother
109.Alexander who
is the ancestor of the Mac Dowells
who were galloglasses in the Ulster Province who was slain
in 1296 AD, and another brother, 109.Eoin known as The Gnieve. His son was
110.Randal Mac Donnell
the father of
111.Shane Mac Donnell the father of
112.Eoin
Mor Mac Donnell who died in 1378 AD as the Lord of the Isles, who married
twice, and from his first wife produced the
Chiefs from the Clann Raghnaill
/ Ronald and of
Glengarry, and from his second wife, Margaret the daughter of Robert 11 the King
of Scotland he produced 113.Margaret who marred Nicholas the Earl of Sunderland, and
another daughter, 113.Elizabeth was married to Lachlan Mac
Lean of Dowart. He also had 3
sons, 113.Donnell na Heile
the ancestor of the Hales whose descendants were Lords of the Isles, who in 1411 AD
at the head of 10,000 followers besieged the kingdom
of Scotland culminating
in the
Battle of Harlaw
in defence of his right to the kingdom of Ross as he was married to the heiress.
His other 2 sons were 113.Eoin Oge, and
113.Alexander the ancestor of the Mac Donnells of Kappagh. He also had a brother,
112.Marcach who was killed
in 1397 AD and another 112.Donnell. His second son
113.Eoin Oge
Mac Donnell married Margery the daughter of Lord
Bisset of the Glinns in Co. Antrim,
and his son;
114.Donell
Ballach Mac Donnell married
Joan the daughter
of The O Donnell the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern" Ui Niaill
Chief of the Cenel Conaill from
Tir Conaill
/ Tyrconnell, and his brother,
114.Marcach was married to the daughter of
The O Cahan / Caine the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern" Ui Niaill Cenel
nEogain Chief, and his son was
115. Eoin Mac Donnell
married Sarah
the daughter of
Phelim O Neill the
Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain
Chief of
Clannaboy,
and his son was
116.Eoin Cathanach Mac
Donnell who was hung in 1499 AD, who had been fostered by the
O Cahans / O Caine, and was married to Cecilia the daughter of
Robert Savage of the Ards. His son was
117. Alexander Mac Donnell
the Lord of Route and the Glens who was married to
Catherine the daughter of
Murcha Mac Cahalan
of
Co. Derry. He also
had a brother, 117.Aeneas Mac Donnell who was also known
as Mac Parson / Mac Pherson / Parsons
who had 8 sons,
118.Giolla Easpuig Daoinech, 118.Donnell Ballach, 118.James
whose son
119.Aeneas died
in 1545 AD,
118.Aengus - the
Proud, 118.Alasdair Oge, 118.Colla,
118.Sorley Buidhe and
118.Donnell Gorm. His seventh son who carried their male line forward on this
occasion was
118.Sorley
Buidhe Mac Donnell of Dunluce Castle in
Co. Antrim
who married Mary the daughter of
125.Conn Baccach O Neill the English appointed
the first
Earl of Tyrone in 1542 AD, who was to die in 1590 AD. He had
6 sons,
119.Donnell Colla / Visduin
/ Euston, 119.Aladran,
119.Sir
James of Dunluce
Castle, 119.Randal
/ Raghnall of Arran,
119.Aengus of Ulster and
119.Ludar. His third
son who carried the male line forward was
119.Sir
James Mac Donnell who was knighted by the English in 1597 AD, and died in
1601 AD. He had left his younger son, 120.Alasdair
Carragh as a ward with his younger brother,
119.Randal / Raghnall
Arranach Mac Donnell who was to become the
English appointed first Earl of
Antrim. He had 6 sons,
Gilla
Easpuig, Aengus, Raghnall, Colla, Donnell Gorm
and Alasdair Carragh / Sir
Alexander who died in
1634 AD.
119.
Sir Randall Arranach Mac
Donnell, his brother, who had been fostered on the
Arran Isle, was to be the English appointed first Catholic Earl of Antrim
who was to inherit the Estates of his brother after he died in 1601 AD. In 1602
AD he was to abandon 126,Aed Dubh / Black Hugh
O Niall / The O Niall and join in with Sir Arthur
Chichester and was knighted by Elizabeth's 1st Military commander, Mountjoy. On
her death James 1st granted him over 333,000 acres
between Larne and Coleraine, and in 1604 AD he married
127.Alice the daughter of
126,Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O
Niall. In 1608 AD he was in London and in 1610 AD he was appointed by the
English the first Earl of Antrim, and in 1618 AD he was created Viscount Dunluce
where he died in December 1636 AD and was interred at Bonamarghy. His son
was 120. Sir Randall Mac Donnell who became the second
Earl of Antrim and married the widow
of The Duke of Buckingham, who reverted to her
original faith becoming a Catholic again.
Charles 1st
appointed him his Lieutenant in the Scottish
Highlands when War broke out there
and in June 1649 AD he was in the Anglo -
Irish House of Lords and resided
in Dublin until 1641 - 1652 AD. In 1644 AD he was created a
Marquis until Oliver Cromwell took away his Estate, which was restored in July,
1666 AD, but reduced to 87,000 acres at Dunluce and
Glenarm. He died at Bally na Garry in February,1682 AD and was interred at
Bonamarghy. He was succeeded by his brother
120.Alexander the third Earl of Antrim who died in 1699 AD,
whose son 121.Randal was the 4th Earl of Antrim who
died in 1721 AD the father of 122.Alexander
the 5th Earl who died in 1775 AD the father of
123.Randal William the 6th Earl who died in 1791 AD and left no sons, but
two daughters, 124.Anne Catherine who became
the Countess of Antrim and died in 1834 AD, and 124.Charlotte
who succeeded her as the Countess of Antrim and died in 1835 AD. In 1692 AD the
Mac Donald Glencoe Massacre occurred in the
Highlands of Scotland when the English under
Captain Robert Campbell with the Earl of Argyles Regiment, acting under
instructions of the English King's command from James Hamilton was ordered to to
attack Glencoe and take no prisoners under 70 years of age. Mac Donnell
of Co. Laois in
Southern Leinster.
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Colla
Mac
Uais
Sept / Family branch. Ancestors:
114.Marcach Mac Donnell, a brother to
114.Donnell Ballach above, and the father of
115.Turlough Mor who died in 1435 AD the father of
116.Turlough Oge who was the first to settle in
Southern Leinster the father of
117.Donough the father of
118.Eoin Carrach the father of 119.Turlough
the father of 120.Charles /
Calbhach in 1569 AD, the father of 121.Aed Buidhe
the Chief of Gallo in
Co. Laois and
also had territory nearby in
Co. Kildare,
whose brother 121.Alexander was slain in 1577 AD,
and he was the father of 122.Fearach who had
2 younger brothers, 122.Brian
and 122.Fergus who died in 1637 AD, and a sister
122.Helen married to John Doyne. His son,
123.James who was a Colonel in the
Irish Confederacy who had 400 pounds reward and a
free pardon placed on his head died in London in 1661 AD. Mac Donnell
of Tyrawley in Co. Mayo.
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Colla
Mac
Uais
Sept / Family branch.
Ancestors: 112.Donnell Mac Donnell, a
brother of 112.Eoin Mor, above, the father of
113.Randal the father of
114.Eoin the father of 115.Aongus the father
of 116.Marcach the father of
117.Turlough the father of
118.Fearadach Mor of Tyrawley the father of
119.Duineadach (Slioght Duineadaigh) who had
2 brothers, 119.Brian
Buidhe and 119.Cathal
the direct male line ancestor of the Mac Hales
/ Mheic Cathail / Mheic Cail the father of
119.Fearadach the father of
123.James of Tyrawley who had brother, 123.Aonghus
in 1691 AD.
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