Donal II O'Donovan ( ga, Domhnall Ó Donnabháin), The
O'Donovan
The O'Donovans are an Irish family. Their patronymic surname derives from Irish ''Ó Donnabháin'', meaning the grandsons or descendants of Donnubán, referring to the 10th century ruler of the Uí Fidgenti, Donnubán mac Cathail. During the ...
of Clann Cathail, Lord of Clancahill (died 1639), was the son of Ellen
O'Leary
History Ancient
The Uí Laoghaire clan, today associated with the Uibh Laoghaire parish in County Cork, is considered by scholars to have originated in the early Middle Ages on the south-west coast, in the area of Ros Ó gCairbre (Rosscarbery), ...
, daughter of O'Leary of
Carrignacurra, and
Donal of the Skins, The O'Donovan of Clann Cathail. He is most commonly referred to as Donnell O'Donevane of Castledonovan in contemporary references of his time.
His elder brother Diarmaid O'Donovan was slain by
Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare
Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven ( ga, Domhnall Cam Ó Súileabháin Bhéara) (1561–1618), was an Irish nobleman and soldier who was the last independent Chief of the Name of the O'Sullivan clan. He was thus ...
in 1581 following a raid urged by
Elizabeth I
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El ...
into
O'Sullivan
O'Sullivan ( ga, Ó Súilleabháin, Súileabhánach) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Cork and County Kerry. The surname is associated with the southwestern part of Ireland, and was originally found in County ...
territory. Donal is credited with taking the leadership of Clan Cathail following the death of his father, and was inaugurated and granted the
White Rod
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by the
MacCarthy Reagh
The Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach (anglicised ''MacCarthy Reagh'') dynasty are a branch of the MacCarthy dynasty, Kings of Desmond, deriving from the Eóganacht Chaisil sept.
History
The Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach seated themselves as kings of Carbery in ...
, his father-in-law
Owen MacCarthy Reagh, Prince of Carbery, in 1584. He was then later recognized by the Lord Chancellor
Adam Loftus in 1592, defeating an attempt by his younger brother Teige, who alleged Donal to be a
bastard
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** Bastard (law of England and Wales), illegitimacy in English law
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, to depose him. He was the last of his line so inaugurated in the ancient Gaelic manner.
Following his adherence to
Philip III of Spain
Philip III ( es, Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621.
A member of the House of Habsburg, Phi ...
during the
Nine Years' War
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, in 1608 Donal surrendered his territory to
James I of England
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, receiving a regrant of the entire estate to himself personally in 1615. A series of inquisitions from 1599 to 1636 show his to have been the greatest land holdings during that period in
Carbery Carbery or Carbury may refer to:
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* Douglas Carbery (1894–1959), British soldier and airman
* Ethna Carbery (1864–1902), Irish writer
* James Joseph Carbery (1823–1887), Irish ...
after the territories of the MacCarthy princes,
[Butler, "The Barony of Carbery"] although how this came about is a matter of some controversy.
Inauguration and lawsuit
![Archbishop_Loftus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Archbishop_Loftus.jpg)
Donal II's inauguration in 1584 by his father-in-law
Owen MacCarthy Reagh is testified to in a complicated lawsuit filed essentially against the both of them by O'Donovan's younger brother Teige sometime previous to 12 February 1592. The suit was concurrent with the anticipated surrender of the sept lands by Donnel O’Donovane (with similar surrender of other sept lands being undertaken by other chiefs, namely Conoghor O’Kallaghane, Conoghor O’Mahoney and Teig M’Owen Carty) in exchange of a regrant of the lands into the personal estate property of the respective chief by patent. The surviving court document from that date contains a summary of the case and the decision of the Lord Chancellor
Adam Loftus on the matter.
[O'Donovan, ''Hy-Fiachrach'', pp. 444–50] In the suit Teige alleges that Donal was born before his father
Donal I and mother Ellen O'Leary were married, and thus that he was in fact (according to Teige)
illegitimate
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or a bastard and had no rights to the Lordship of Clancahill, with Teige even questioning whether Donal was a son of his father, Donal of the Hides, at all.
[
According to Teige, Donal owed his entire position to Owen MacCarthy Reagh, a man of great wealth and influence and to whose daughter Joane was joined in marriage, and who Teige alleges was not himself even the legitimate ]MacCarthy Reagh
The Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach (anglicised ''MacCarthy Reagh'') dynasty are a branch of the MacCarthy dynasty, Kings of Desmond, deriving from the Eóganacht Chaisil sept.
History
The Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach seated themselves as kings of Carbery in ...
(Prince of Carbery) but an "intruder", the rightful ruler supposedly being Donal of the Pipes,[ Owen's nephew. Loftus decided in Donal II O'Donovan and MacCarthy Reagh's favour, declaring them legitimate and rightful, with Teige getting nothing, however it is possible there were related events back in Carbery because Owen was deposed by his nephew later that year. MacCarthy Reagh was not popular in all circles, and influencing Loftus' decision was the testimony of another son-in-law, O'Donovan's brother-in-law ]Sir Fineen O'Driscoll
Sir Fineen O'Driscoll (died 1629) was an Irish lord who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I. He was more commonly known as The Rover and also known as Fineen of the Ships. He was married to Eileen, daughter of Owen MacCarthy Reagh, Sir Owen MacCarth ...
, who was widely popular with the English and Crown government. O'Driscoll bore witness that O'Donovan "was born many years after the marriage f his mother and fathersolemnised at Dromale".[
Scholars of ]Gaelic Ireland
Gaelic Ireland ( ga, Éire Ghaelach) was the Gaelic political and social order, and associated culture, that existed in Ireland from the late prehistoric era until the early 17th century. It comprised the whole island before Anglo-Normans co ...
frequently mention or refer to the case. First of all, it substantiates the report made a century later by Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet PC (25 March 1650 – 3 May 1733) was an Irish lawyer and judge. He served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland from 1701 to 1703, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1703 to 1707 and as Lord Chief Justice ...
in 1690 that the O'Donovans were considered one of the four families in Carbery of royal extraction, because the White Rod
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or ''slat'', mentioned in the case as received by O'Donovan from MacCarthy Reagh, was for a king
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
or Rí
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of some grade in origin, in this case a subordinate lord princeps
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(prince
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) or petty king
A petty kingdom is a kingdom described as minor or "petty" (from the French 'petit' meaning small) by contrast to an empire or unified kingdom that either preceded or succeeded it (e.g. the numerous kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England unified into th ...
, in the Irish understanding, receiving his rod from his superior or overking. Also one of very last known uses of the ''slat'' in Irish history, as found in the lawsuit "its citation as formal evidence of legitimate holding of lordship and lands" is considered by Elizabeth FitzPatrick to be the strongest evidence of its symbolizing "legitimate authority" even at this late date in Gaelic Ireland. Returning to the relationship between the MacCarthy Reagh and O'Donovan, it has been pointed out that the O'Donovan family in Carbery apparently had a privileged position because the head paid to his superior a significantly smaller rent than the other leading families enjoyed, possibly originating from the O'Donovans' close association with Fínghin Mac Carthaigh in the 13th century and their certain support given to him at the Battle of Callann
The Battle of Callann was fought in August 1261 between the Hiberno-Normans, under John FitzGerald, and three Gaelic clans: MacCarthy, who held the Kingdom of Desmond, under Fínghin Mac Carthaigh, King of Desmond, ancestor of the MacCar ...
in 1261.[Ó Murchadha, ''Family Names'', p. 125]
Donal II is the last of Clan Cathal, and the only one recorded as having received, the white rod. Curiously, in spite of Crown policy, which forbid the use of Gaelic titles, Loftus refers to Donel O'Donevane as simply ''O'Donovan'' (meaning the head of his sept and thus Lord of Clancahill, etc.), confirming it in the final paragraph of the document.[ This recognized O'Donovan as ]Chief of the Name
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In Eliza ...
or Captain of his countrie.
The designation of Donal as Chief by the English court of Loftus served the Crown's purposes: by formally "recognizing" Donal as "Chief", there could be no subsequent legal doubt he was authorized to surrender clan lands of approximately 60,000 acres to the English crown. Through the surrender and re-grant of clan lands, Donal obtained granted title to the lands vested in himself as an individual.
Commenting on Donal and his contemporary descendants 250 years later, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa ( ga, Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rosa; baptised 4 September 1831, died 29 June 1915)Con O'Callaghan Reenascreena Community Online (dead link archived at archive.org, 29 September 2014) was an Irish Fenian leader and member ...
, noted that Donal and his heirs "held landlord possession of lands that belonged equally to their clansmen; England protected them in that landlord possession of the robbery from their own people."
Career
Besides the case of his accession above, O'Donovan is first noted in 1586 for burning to the ground the newly built house of the Protestant Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross is the Church of Ireland Ordinary of the united Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in the Province of Dublin.
The current bishop is the Right Reverend Paul Colton BCL, DipTh, MPhil, LLM, PhD. He was consecrated ...
, William Lyon.[O'Donovan, ''Four Masters Vol. VI'', pp. 2441–7] Not only was the new house rather ostentatious, but Lyon was also accused of stealing and selling priceless gold and silver artifacts from the early period of the church. It is possible, however, that O'Donovan was guilty of burning the whole town of Ross or Rosscarbery
Rosscarbery () is a village and census town in County Cork, Ireland. The village is on a shallow estuary, which opens onto Rosscarbery Bay. Rosscarbery is in the Cork South-West (Dáil Éireann) constituency, which has three seats.
History
The ...
itself, and his men may have slain one of Lyon's daughters in the attack. According to Lyon himself in 1615 nearly thirty years after the incident:
Although not among the major figures of his time, Donal II was in their company and active in Munster
Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following the ...
affairs during the Nine Years' War
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, being one of the few southern lords to support Hugh O'Neill.[Ó Murchadha, ''Family Names'', p. 127; MacCarthy Glas, p. 191] In March 1599 pledges of loyalty to the English Crown were received from all the lords in Carbery except for O'Donovan and some MacCarthys, and because of this Sir Thomas Norris
Sir Thomas Norris (1556–1599) was an English soldier. He sat in the Irish House of Commons, and was made Lord President of Munster in Ireland. His last name is sometimes spelt Norreys.
Family
He was the fifth son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron ...
"... caused their castles and houses to be taken and razed, and their people and lands to be spoiled", as he wrote to the Privy Council
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.[ But a year later O'Neill was both widely regarded and acting as virtual King of Ireland, or much of it, and was acknowledged by his supporters in Munster as such, including O'Donovan, wisely because those who refused had their lands wasted. In late 1599 Donal joined ]Florence MacCarthy
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, whom O'Neill was acknowledging the MacCarthy Mór and King of Desmond
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12th century MacCarthy
MacCarthy claimants
O'Brien claimants
MacCarthy
13th ce ...
, and Owen Mac Egan in O'Neill's camp at Inniscarra
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near Cork city
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, in writing an appeal to Donogh Moyle MacCarthy, one of Owen MacCarthy Reagh's sons and thus O'Donovan's brother-in-law, to join them.[''Calender... Carew Year(s) ?'', pp. ?] The letter was intercepted, and for his part and signature Donal's people were "pacified" savagely by the English forces under the command of Captain George Flower, who related:[
The plan was that O'Donovan and Florence's brother, Dermod Maol MacCarthy, would invade a number of territories to the north of Carbery,][ but this was obviously unrealized. In any event, not long after, when ]Philip III of Spain
Philip III ( es, Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621.
A member of the House of Habsburg, Phi ...
sent his forces to Munster, 100 men out of the 700 were assigned to Donal's command, fully equipped and paid for, to supplement his own forces. According to Philip O'Sullivan Beare
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, he was one of the principal men of the relief army led by Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare
Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, Prince of Beare, 1st Count of Berehaven ( ga, Domhnall Cam Ó Súileabháin Bhéara) (1561–1618), was an Irish nobleman and soldier who was the last independent Chief of the Name of the O'Sullivan clan. He was thus ...
(slayer of his brother Diarmaid) to support Pedro de Zubiaur
Pedro de Zubiaur, Zubiaurre or Çubiaurre (1540 – 3 August 1605) was a Spanish naval officer, general of the Spanish Navy, distinguished for his achievements in the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).
Biography
Born into a seafaring family from ...
at Castlehaven
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in early December 1601, which led to what was according to O'Sullivan Beare a small but spectacular victory for the Spaniards and Irish:
However the English also claimed victory and moderns scholars are very divided on who should be considered the winners. Two months later, an apparently poorly informed or otherwise motivated Sir George Carew
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wrote to the English government on 15 February 1602:
But this was only true in the sense that they were not all present at the final Battle of Kinsale
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itself in late December/early January, almost a month after Castlehaven, although apparently O'Donovan made an appearance (on the Irish side) earlier during the siege. Changing allegiance after this ruinous event, O'Donovan joined Owen's sons Finghin and Donogh Maol, and O'Driscoll, in siding with the English, and O'Sullivan Beare wasted the territory of Clancahill after hearing of it.
A surprising event occurred shortly after when some of O'Donovan's men, under the command of Finghin, killed Dermod Maol MacCarthy (cousin of O'Donovan) who was engaged in a cattle-raid into O'Donovan's territory. Dermod Maol was regarded as the chief threat after Florence to the English in Munster (now along with O'Sullivan Beare, who joined the cause late) He and O'Sullivan Beare had been joined in continuing against the English by Cornelius O'Driscoll, son of Sir Fineen who was now opposing them. After a period Finghin and Donogh Maol MacCarthy may have gone back to the rebel side but O'Donovan remained loyal to the English, even though his sept was divided in their allegiances.
In July 1606, Donell M'Carthy, the M'Carthy Riough, petitioned the Earl of Salisbury that Donell O'Donevan, for whose loyalty petitioner's son was made surety and suffered four and a half years of imprisonment during the recent wars, should pay damages to him. Prior to the fall of the Gaelic order, it was common that pledges were secured by the holding of the offspring of those making the pledge, or in this case, those guarantying the conduct of those under them.
Estate
After the war O'Donovan fared particularly well and ended up in control of at least a few more territories than he began with, the result a combination of the government granting him lands (or rents) seized from septs of the MacCarthys and others, and his own aggressive efforts.[ Carew, in a 1599 note to the government, describing in outline the lands of Carbery and associated, gives O'Donovan of Clancahill's as consisting of 67 ploughlands, two of those being set aside for the church. These covered virtually the entire modern parishes of Drimoleague, Drinagh, and Myross (the Myross Peninsula between Glandore and Castlehaven harbours), and on these sat Donal's three castles of ]Castle Donovan
Castle Donovan ( ga, Caisleán Uí Dhonnabháin) or Castledonovan or O'Donovan's Castle refer to the remains of an Irish tower house or ''túrtheach'', in a valley near Drimoleague, of medium size which was the so-called "seat" of the Clann Cath ...
(Sowagh), Rahine (Raheen), and Castle Ire (Ivor), the latter two in Myross and the former in Drimoleague. A few centuries previous Myross had been the location of a Norman castle, Dún Mic Oghmainn, and it is probable that in 1326 an important battle won over Maurice fitz Thomas by MacCarthy Reagh and the Carberymen occurred at Mullaghmesha Mountain, source of the River Ilen
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Its five main tributaries are, the Saivnose, Coarliss, Achrinduff, Glounaphuca and Clodagh. It is ...
and which overlooks both the vale of Castle Donovan and the gap of Barnagowlane going northwest to Kerry
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. Dún Mic Oghmainn had been demolished the century before by the MacCarthys following the Battle of Callann
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and the O'Donovans are believed to have been there with them at the battle.[
]
As far as the architecture of both Rahine and Castle Donovan, both are believed to have been constructed by the same team responsible for the O'Leary
History Ancient
The Uí Laoghaire clan, today associated with the Uibh Laoghaire parish in County Cork, is considered by scholars to have originated in the early Middle Ages on the south-west coast, in the area of Ros Ó gCairbre (Rosscarbery), ...
's castle of Carrignacurra, during the last decades of the 16th century, using innovative designs first pioneered there. Castle Ire was on the other hand a simpler one (main) story structure, although the possibility of a built-in look-out tower cannot be excluded. However a more notable conclusion reached is that its surviving structure, like the others, was built during Donal's time and does not remain from the 1200s which tradition continues to state.
In 1611, he was one of those accused by Florence MacCarthy of occupying some of his estates while he was being held in the Tower of London
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. Little of Donal II's later life to his death in 1639 remains known, besides what the inquisitions offer, but he was of considerable age by that period. The Manor of Bawnlahan, which continued in the family's possession until the death of Richard II O'Donovan
Richard O'Donovan II, The O'Donovan of Clancahill, (1764/1768—1829), Lieutenant General was the son of Jane Becher, daughter of John Becher, and Daniel V O'Donovan, The O'Donovan of Clancahill.
O'Donovan fought with the 6th Dragoons in the ...
, was the most direct descendant of the Manor of Rahine. Following this the descendants of Teige, a son of Donal II with Johanna MacCarthy Reagh, inherited the style of ''O'Donovan'' and built their own stately house, known as Lissard, to replace the centrality of Bawnlahan. After later selling Lissard due to its size and cost of maintenance, they have since resided at the nearby Hollybrook House, inherited from a British relation and not far from the town of Skibbereen
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, on what was once O'Driscoll territory like Lissard, immediately neighboring the ancient Manor of Rahine.
Harper
Belonging to Donal's household was the blind harper Conchubhar Mac Conghalaigh, for whom the lament ''Torchoir ceól Cloinne Cathoil'' was composed by the bardic poet Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte
Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte, Irish poet, fl. c. 1601.
A member of the Ó an Cháintighe bardic family, and a relative of Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte, Tadhg Olltach is probably to be identified with 'Teige on Canty, of Clansheane', mentioned in ...
. Both Donal and the Lady Joanna are mentioned in the poem, where her grief for the harper is described (12th stanza):
Also mentioned is Dáire Cerbba
Dáire Cerbba (or Cerba, Cearba, Cearb; meaning "Silver Dáire" or "Dáire the Sharp/Cutting") was a 4th-century Irish dynast who was evidently a king of late prehistoric central northern Munster, called Medón Mairtíne at the time. A frequentl ...
, 4th century progenitor of the Uí Fidgenti
The Uí Fidgenti, Fidgeinti, Fidgheinte, Fidugeinte, Fidgente, or Fidgeinte ( or ;In the pronunciation, the -d- is silent, and the -g- becomes a glide, producing what might be anglicized ''Feeyenti'' or ''Feeyenta''. "descendants of, or of the ...
and Uí Liatháin
The Uí Liatháin (IPA: iːˈlʲiəhaːnʲ were an early kingdom of Munster in southern Ireland. They belonged the same kindred as the Uí Fidgenti, and the two are considered together in the earliest sources, for example ''The Expulsion of th ...
. The O'Donovans belong to the former.
Marriages and issue
O'Donovan firstly married Helena de Barry
The de Barry family is a noble family of Cambro-Norman origins which held extensive land holdings in Wales and Ireland. The founder of the family was a Norman Knight, Odo, who assisted in the Norman Conquest of England during the 11th century. ...
, daughter of Shely MacCarthy and William de Barry, son of Ellen MacCarthy Reagh
The Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach (anglicised ''MacCarthy Reagh'') dynasty are a branch of the MacCarthy dynasty, Kings of Desmond, deriving from the Eóganacht Chaisil sept.
History
The Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach seated themselves as kings of Carbery in ...
and James FitzRichard de Barry, Lord Ibane and Viscount Buttevant, and by her had 1) Donal III O'Donovan
Donal III O'Donovan ( ga, Domhnall Ó Donnabháin), The O'Donovan of Clancahill, born before 1584, was the son of Helena de Barry and Donal II O'Donovan, The O'Donovan of Clancahill. From the inauguration of his father in 1584 to the date of his ...
; 2) Conogher, entered the Austrian Army and never returned to Ireland; 3), 4) possibly two other sons. He married secondly Joanna MacCarthy Reagh, daughter of Ellen O'Callaghan
O'Callaghan () or simply Callaghan without the prefix (anglicized from '' Ó Ceallacháin'') is an Irish surname.
Origin and meaning Munster
The surname means descendant of Ceallachán who was the Eóganachta King of Munster from AD 935 until 9 ...
and Owen MacCarthy Reagh, and by her had sons 1) Teige, for whom see below; 2) Capt. Murrough, royalist killed in command of a company of foot in the Battle of Rathmines
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; 3) Donough; 4) Dermot; 5) Capt. Richard, royalist, slain in foreign parts; 6) Keadagh. Of his three daughters 1) Honora became the second wife of Teige-an-Duna MacCarthy
Teige-an-Duna MacCarthy ( ga, Tadhg an Duna Mac Carthaigh) (1584 – 24 May 1649), Lord of Glean-na-Chroim, was the last hereditary Prince of the Dunmanway branch of the MacCarthy Reagh dynasty of Carbery (barony), Carbery "who exercised the ri ...
, Lord of Glean-na-Chroim; 2) m. MacCarthy of Mourne (junior sept of MacCarthy of Muskerry
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Origins and advancement
The MacCarthy of Muskerry are a cadet branch of the MacCarthy Mor d ...
); 3) m. O'Mahony
O'Mahony (Old Irish: ''Ó Mathghamhna''; Modern Irish: ''Ó Mathúna'') is the original name of the clan, with breakaway clans also spelled O'Mahoney, or simply Mahony, Mahaney and Mahoney, without the prefix. Brodceann O'Mahony was the eldest of t ...
Fionn (senior sept of O'Mahony, Prince of Raithlin).
From his eldest son Donal III descended his male offspring through General Richard II O'Donovan
Richard O'Donovan II, The O'Donovan of Clancahill, (1764/1768—1829), Lieutenant General was the son of Jane Becher, daughter of John Becher, and Daniel V O'Donovan, The O'Donovan of Clancahill.
O'Donovan fought with the 6th Dragoons in the ...
(d. 1829), first to re-establish use of the designation "O'Donovan (Mor)" (based on regional public recognition of his right) since the fall of the Gaelic order around 1600. After the death of General O'Donovan, the title passed by agreement to the cadet line
In history and heraldry, a cadet branch consists of the male-line descendants of a monarch's or patriarch's younger sons ( cadets). In the ruling dynasties and noble families of much of Europe and Asia, the family's major assets—realm, titles, ...
descending from 2) Teige above, who still hold it to this day. A notable descendant of Teige following the succession is Morgan Wiliam II.
The famous scholar and topographer John O'Donovan John O'Donovan may refer to:
*John O'Donovan (scholar) (1806–1861), Irish language scholar and place-name expert
*John O'Donovan (politician) (1908–1982), Irish TD and Senator
*John O'Donovan (police commissioner) (1858–1927), New Zealand pol ...
claimed descent from Donal II's unnamed sons, first claiming his ancestor Edmund was the eldest son, and after some twenty years of research without being able to prove his claim, revised his claim to naming his ancestor Edmund as the youngest son of Donal II.[O'Donovan, ''Annals of the Four Masters'', vol. VI, p. 2154 etc]
Ancestry
See also
* Chief of the Name
The Chief of the Name, or in older English usage Captain of his Nation, is the recognised head of a family or clan (''fine'' in Irish and Scottish Gaelic). The term has sometimes been used as a title in Ireland and Scotland.
In Ireland
In Eliza ...
* Surrender and regrant
During the Tudor conquest of Ireland (c.1540–1603), "surrender and regrant" was the legal mechanism by which Irish clans were to be converted from a power structure rooted in clan and kin loyalties, to a late-feudal system under the English l ...
* Gaelic Ireland
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* Gaelic nobility of Ireland
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Notes
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Donal
Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...
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