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Hugh O'Donnell

1281

Hugh, son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, was inaugurated in the place of his
father. AFM

1290

Hugh, son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, was deposed by his own brother,
Turlough O'Donnell, aided by his mother's tribe, ie the Clann Donnell
(Mac Donnells of Scotland), and by many other gallowglasses; and he
himself assumed the lordship by force. AFM

1295

Hostilities broke out in Tirconnell between Hugh, son of Donnel oge,
and Turlough, his brother, concerning the lordship, so that a great
part of the country was destroyed between them, both lay and
ecclesiastical property. Turlough was afterwards deposed, and banished
from Tirconnell to the Kinel-Owen and the Clann-Donnell. AFM

1303


Turlough, the son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell usually called Turlough of
Cnoc-an-Madhma (hill of the defeat), Lord ~f Tirconnell, a warlike


tower of protection in battle, and the Cuchullin of the Clann-Daly in
valeur, was slain by his brother, Hugh, after a long war, during which
much of their country was spoiled between them in every direction; and
great numbers of the Kinel-Owen, of the chiefs of the English of the
north, and of the Kinel-Connell themselves, were slaughtered along with
him. Among these were two grandsons of the Ferleighin (Lector)
O'Donnell. After this, Hugh enjoyed the lordship of Tirconnell in
hapiness and prosperity as long as he lived. AFM

1315

Hugh came with a great army to the castle of Sligo, took the town, and
destroyed much around it. AFM

Hugh O'Donnell, prince of Tirconnell, came to the lands of Carbury in
Connaught, and destroyed all that country, by the advice of his wife,
the daughter of Magnus O'Connor, and came herself with a great route of
gallowglasses, and took all the spoils of the churches of Drumkleiw,
without respect to church or churchman of that place. ANNALS OF
CONNAUGHT

1318

John, son of Donnell O'Neill, was slain by Hugh at Derry-Columbkille,
and Mac Donnell and many others were slain and drowned. AFM

1333

Hugh, the son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, Kinel-Moen,
Inishowen, Fermanagh, and Breifny, and a masteries of a king of Ulster;
of all the Irish the most successful, and the most dreaded by his
enemies; he who had slain the largest number of both the English and
Irish who were opposed to him; the most eminant man of his time for
jurisdiction, laws, and regulations, and the chief patron of the
hospitality and munificemce of the West of Europe, died, victorious
over the world and the devil, in the habit of a monk, on the island of
Inis-Saimer (small island in the river Erne, close to the cataract of
Assoroe at Ballyshannon), and was interred with great honour and
solemnity in the monastery of Assaroe.