Donnell More O'Donnell


1208

A prey was taken by Hugh O'Neill in Inishowen. Donnell More overtook
him with his forces; and a battle was fought between them, in which
countless numbers were slaughtered on both sides. In this battle fell
Caffar O'Donnell and Cormac O'Donnell. The Kinel-Connell were at length
routed by dint of fighting. AFM

An army was led by Donnell More against Hugh O'Neill and the
Kinel-Owen; and he seized upon the spoils and hostages of the country.
A peace however, was afterwards concluded between O'Neill and
O'Donnell, who entered into an alliance to assist each other against
such of the English or Irish as should oppose them. AFM

1210

The English came to Cael-uisge (now called Caol-na-h-Eirne, and is part
of Lough Erne near Castle Cladwell, where the lake becomes narrow).
Hugh O'Neill and Donnell More, assembling their forces marched thither,
and slew the English, together with Henry Beg, and distributed their
goods and property among their troops. AFM

1213

Finn O'Brollaghan, steward of Donnell More went to Connaught to collect
Donnells tribute. He first went to Carbury of Drumcliff, where, with
his attendants, he visited the house of the poet Murray O'Daly of
Lissadill (southwest of the barony of Carbury, near the Bay of Sligo);
and, being a plebian representative of a hero, he began to wrangle with
the poet very much (although his lord had given him no instructions to
do so). The poet, being enraged at his conduct, seized a very sharp
axe, and dealt him a blow which killed him on the spot, and then, to
avoid O'Donnell, he fled to Clanrickard. When O'Donnell received
intelligence of this, he collected a large body of his forces, and
pursued him to Derrydonnell (in the parish of Athenry, and about 3
miles east of Oranmore, in the county of Galway) in Clanrickard, -a
place which was named from him, because he encamped there for a night;
-and he proceeded to plunder and burn the country, until at last Mac
William (Richard de Burgo, the son of William Fitz-Adlem, and the great
lord to whom King Henry III granted the province of Connaught in the
year 1225) submitted to him, having previously sent Murray to seek
for refuge in Thomond. O'Donnell pursued him, and proceeded to plunder
and ravage that country also, until Donough Cairbreach O'Brien sent
Murray away to the people of Limerick. O'Donnell followed him to the
gate of Limerick, and, pitching his camp at Monydonnell (which is named
from him), laid siege to that town; upon which the people of Limerick,
at O'Donnells command, expelled Murray, who found no asylum anywhere,
but was sent from hand to hand, until he arrived in Dublin. O'Donnell
returned home on this occasion, having first traversed and completed
the visitation of all Connaught. He mustered another army without much
delay in the same year, and, marching to Dublin, compelled the people
of Dublin to banish Murray into Scotland; and here he remained until he
composed 3 poems in praise of O'Donnell, imploring peace and
forgiveness for him. The 3rd of these poems is the one beginning, 'Oh!
O'Donnell, kind hand for granting peace.' He obtained peace for his
panegyrics, and O'Donnell afterwards received him into hios friendship,
and gave him lands and possessions, as was pleasing to him. AFM

1219

An army was led by O'Donnell into the Rough Third of Connaught
(counties of Leitrim, Longforf, and Cavan), and obtained hostages and
submission from O'Rourke and O'Reilly, and from all the race of Aedh
Finn (O'Rourkes, O'Reillys and their correlatives). He afterward passed
through Fermanagh, and destroyed every place through which he passed,
both lay and ecclesiastical property, wherein there was any opposition
to him. AFM

1223

An army was led by O'Donnell to Croghan (Rathcrogan in the parish of
Kilcorkey, nearly midway between Belanagare and Elphin, in the county
of Roscommon), in Connaught, thence into Tuathas of Connaught, and
westwards across the Suck, and plundered and burned every territory
which he entered, until he had received their hostages and submissions.
AFM

1230

Am army was led by O'Donnell into Connaught, against Hugh, the son of
Roderic O'Conor, who was opposed to him and destroyed Moynai and a
great part of the country. The sons of Roderick however, did not give
him hostages on this occasion. AFM

1231

An army was led by O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, and Aengus Mac
Gilla-Finnen (now Mac Gillinnion, of the Kinel-Connell race), with the
forces of Fermanagh, against O'Reilly (Cathal): they brought boats with
them upon Lough Oughter, and plundered Eo-inis (an island in Loch Erne)
and, after obtaining their own award, they carried away with them all
the jewels, treasuers, and wealth of the whole town (they killed the
best white steed that was in Ireland and carried away Cacht, the
daughter of Mac Fiachrach, the wife of O'Reilly). AFM

1235

An expedition was made by the English of Ireland, being assembled by
Richard, the son of William Burke. Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg,
after a clash with the English, resolved to take with him to O'Donnell
all the cows belonging to such of the inhabitants of Conmaicne-mara and
Conmaicne-Cuile who should take his advice, together with the son of
Manus, and Coner Roe, the son of Murtough Muimhneach, and leaving the
whole country desolate for the English. After the English had plundered
and devastated Umillia, both by sea and land, they marched on with
their cows and spoils to Luffertane (in the parish of Ballintober, in
the county of Mayo); thence they proceeded, by regular marches, to
Easdara (Ballysadare), where they took a prey from O'Donnell, because
he had granted an asylum to Felim after his expulsion. AFM

1236

O'Donnell marched with an army to Iubhar Chinn Choiche (ancient name of
the town of Newry, in the county of Down) in Ulidia, and destroyed
every territory through which he passed: he also obtained hostages and
submission from most of the Ulidians. AFM

1239


A prey was taken by the English of Ireland from O'Donnell. AFM

Lasarina, daughter of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, and the wife of O'Donnell, gav
half townland of her marriage dowry, viz., Rosbirn, to Clarus Mac
Mailin and the Canons of Trinity Island, in Lough Key, in honour of the
Trinity and the Virgin Mary (Rosbirn, near the mouth of the Ballysadare
River. in the parish of Kilmacowen, barony of Carbury, and county of
Sligo. This barony belonged to O'Donnell who must have given this, and
other lands in its vicinity as a dowry to his wife, according to the
old Irish custom. AFM

1241

Donnell More, the son of Egnaghan O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell,
Fermanagh, and Lower Connaught, as far as the Cuilieu Mountains, and of
Oriel from the plain (level part of the county of Louth) northwards,
died jn the monastic habit, victorious over the world and the devil,
and was interred with honour and respect in the monastery of Assaroe,
in the harvest time. AFM