O’Donel (No. 8.) family genealogy

Chiefs of Tirconnell

Arms: Or, issuing from the sinister side of the shield an arm fessways vested az. cuffed ar. holding in the hand ppr. a cross crosslet fitchée gu. Motto: In hoc signo vinces.

As we have found that Conn, who (see p. 645, Vol. I. of this Edition) is Νo. 122 on the “O’Donel” (Princes of Tirconnell) pedigree, had ten sons, including the three, there mentioned, we here give their names; with the view to assist present members of the “O’Donel” family, in the county Donegal, or elsewhere, to trace their descent from one or other of those ten sons:

1. Nachtan who was slain in 1582.
2. Calvagh Oge, slain in 1588.
3. Manus, slain in 1589.
4. Nial Garbh, died in 1626.
5. Hugh Buidhe, d. in 1649.
6. Conn Oge, slain in 1601.
7. Calvagh, “slain by Donal, son of Hugh O’Donel.”
8. Caffar, who was “slain by the rebel Maguire.”
9. Donal (A.D. 1602), who, in the reign of King James I. had a grant of land in Donegal: “Grant from the King to Donel McQuin O’Donnell, Glancho and Reimon 2½ Qrs., 128 acres, Reut,[Rent?] £1 7s. 3¾d.” This Donal with his brother Hugh Buidhe was in 1615 charged with corresponding with Nial Garbh.
10. Eignechan, whose daughter Johanna was married to Rory O’Donel, of Lifford.

Descendants of Donal (No. IX.) are now (1888) living in the county Donegal, but we are unable, at present, to trace the descent.