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O Donnell
O Donnell or
O Donell -
Irish
/ Ua Domhnaill
(World Mighty)
Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel Conaill Sept / Family branch who were
Chiefs, Kings and Princes in
their territory in
Tir Conaill /
Tyrconnell
(The
Land of
91.Conall.)
Co.
Donegal in the
north - west of the Ulster Province,
They were the most prominent of the Cenel Conaill
Septs in the 12th Century, after their kinsmen the O
Mulroys / Muldory Sept. Due to the pressure from their expanding
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill kinsmen, the
Cenel nEogain Sept, they were to also have territory nearby in the
south - west in
Co. Sligo in the north -
west of the Connacht Province.
They had their beginnings at Kilmacrenan, and began their rise during the Middle - Ages, which then lasted up until the 14th Century AD,
and they then continued on
in a limited capacity for another 300 years until the
total ethnic and religious English oppression under Henry V111 and his daughter
Elizabeth 1st. Their last Chief was
126.Niall
Garbh -
the Rough O Donnell, with their male line then continuing on down through his younger brother
126.Aedh Buidhe - of the Yellow Hair
O Donnell to
Aed / Aodh
O Donnell who was at one time still living in
Dublin in Co. Dublin
in the north - east of Southern Leinster.
Their Inauguration Stone was at Doon Rock, two miles west of
Kilmacrenan, and prior to 1540
AD none of their Kings or Chiefs
were to ever pay homage to the English. In 1548 AD they founded a Franciscan
Friary at Killydonnell /
Cill O d
- Ui
Tomhrair
in
Co. Donegal
where it’s bell was to end up in Loch Swilly.
The "aged"
124.Aed
Dubh - of Dark Complexion
O Donnell / The O Donnell
was appointed the first English Earl of Tyrconnell and his
young son, 125. Aodh
Ruadh / Red Hugh - of Red Complexion O Donnell
eventually allied with
126.Aedh
Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall,
his Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niall kinsman from the
Heremonian Cenel nEogain
Sept,
and they held their territory then
by negotiation and War. In 1597
AD 125.Aodh
Ruadh / Red Hugh O Donnell / The O Donnell
had his seat at the
O Donnell
Castle at Bally Shannon in
Co. Donegal.
The English had previously imprisoned him as a youth for many years in the
Dublin
Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) until he was eventually assisted by his
kinsman and brother - in - law,
126.Aodh Dubh
/ Black Hugh
O Niaill to escape and
he joined in with him
to try and drive the English out of
Ireland.
He was subsequently done away with by a professional English assassin in Spain,
and his younger brother,
125.Rory
O Donnell
then took his place, but he too was then forced to flee when an Attainder
was also taken out against all of the Gaelic leaders in
Ulster.
3,500,000
acres of the territories of the northern
Milesian Gaelic
Families and the various other Irish Septs
there were confiscated by the English and
foreign non - Catholics were brought in and planted there with the
Irish Families driven off up above the 600'
level to starve to death.
Ancestors:
*90.Niall
-
of the Nine Hostages the
126th King of Tara / Ireland
the direct male line ancestor of all of the
Hermonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Niaill
Septs
in the
Ulster Province and
Northern Leinster. He had 8
sons who all produced main Septs
including;
One of his sons,
120.Shane
- of Lurg was banished by his father from Tir
Conaill and migrated to
Co. Tipperary in the
Munster Province were he may have become the ancestor
of the Cenel Conaill O Donnells
in Co. Clare, Co. Limerick
and Co. Tipperary,
119.Turlough an Fiona was also the father of
120.Niall
Garb the Chief
of Tir
Conaill who died in
captivity on the Isle Of Man, in 1439 AD
who was the father of 121.Aodh
Ruadh - of Red Complexion
who ws also the Chief of Tir Conaill,
the father of O Donnell or O Donell
of Co. Clare /
O Donnell
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91.Conall
Gulban was the
1st King
of Tir Conaill / Tyrconnell /
Co. Donegal
and the direct male line ancestor of the
Cenel Conaill
Septs
in the north - west of the
Ulster Province,
who was a brother to
91.Leary
/ Laoghaire the
128th King of Ireland
and the father of
92.Fergus Cendfota
/ Ceanfhada
the father of
93.Setnae
/ Seadneach / Sedna the father of
94.Fergus,
a younger brother of
94.Ainmere
the 138th King of Ireland
who is
the ancestor of the
O Gallaghers,
and the father of
95.Lewy
/ Lugdach the father of
96.Ronan the father of 97.Garb
the father of 98.Ceannfola
the father of 99.Muldoon
/ Maol Duin the father of
100.Arnall the father
of 101.Ceannfola
the father of
102.Murtaugh / Muirchertach (whose
2 brothers were 102.Maol Duin
and 102.Fiaman. 102. Murtaugh
the father of 103.Dalach
the direct male line ancestor of the Siol n Dalaigh (Seed of
103.Dalach)
the father of 104.Eignechan
the father of 105.Donnell / Domhnall
the direct male line ancestor of the
O Donnells / Ui Domhnaill
of Tir Conaill,
and the
Muintir Donnell in
Co. Clare
in Northern Munster.
His son
106.Cathbharr
was the father of 107.Giolla Chriosd
the father of 108.Cathbarr
the father of 109.Conn
the father of
110.Teague / Tadhg
the father of 111.Aodh
the father of 112.Donnell
the father of 113.Donough
the father of 114.Eignechan
the father of 115.Donnell Mor
the Greater the father of 116.Donnell Oge
- the Younger the father of 117.Aodh
the father of
118,Niall Garbh who died
in 1389 AD,
the father of 119.Turlough an Fiona
- of the Wine, the Chief
of Tir Conaill,
who died in 1422 AD who had 18
sons,
122.Aodh Dubhalso the Chief of
Tir Conaill, who died in 1537
AD,
the father of
123.Manus O Donnell who died in 1557 AD, the father
of
125.Conn O Donnell who was a son of
124.Calbach O Donnell, was to
contest for the position
of
Chief of Tir Conaill and died
in 1583 AD and of hisw 3 sons,
126.Aodh Buidhe O Donnell
is the ancestor of the
O Donnells of Larkfield in
Co. Leitrim, 126.Conn Oge O Donnell is the ancestor of
the O Donnells of Old
Castle and Castlebar in Co. Mayo
and the O Donnells
of Spain and Austria, 126.Sir
Niall Garb O Donnell his eldest son, also
had unsuccessfully contested for the position of Chief
of Tir Conaill with
125.Aodh Ruad / Red Hugh
O Donnell / The O Donnell, and in 1602 AD and was to gain the
position after 125.Aodh Ruadh
/ Red Hugh O Donnell / The O Donnell was poisoned. In 1608
AD he too was imprisoned by the English in the
Tower of London, where he eventually died in 1626 AD.
127.Manus O Donnell his son,
became a Colonel in 127.Owen Roe O Niall's
Irish Confederacy
forces and was killed at the
Battle of Benburb in
1646 AD. His son, 128.Rory O Donnell
of Lifford in
Co. Donegal
was also to be transplanted to
Co. Mayo by the English Protector Oliver Cromwell. His son,129.Colonel
Manus O Donnell of Newport in
Co. Mayo was involved in The Violated Treaty of
Limerick in 1698 AD and died in 1737 AD.