Domhnall na g-Croiceann

Domhnall na g-Croiceann
Carbery in Tudor times

Donal of the Skins or Hides (Irish: Domhnall na g-Croiceann), also called Peltry O'Donovan or simply Donal I O'Donovan (Irish: Domhnall Ó Donnabháin), was The O'Donovan Mor, Lord of Clancahill from his inauguration with the White Wand circa 1560 by the MacCarthy Reagh, Prince of Carbery, to his death in 1584. Although not recorded his inaugurator was probably Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh, 10th Prince of Carbery.

He was the son of Teige of Dromasta, The O'Donovan Mor, and Helena O'Donovan, daughter of Denis O'Donovan MacEnesles of Moyny.

Fostered by the O'Leary of Carrignacurra, Donal married his daughter Ellen O'Leary, after having already had by her Diarmaid O'Donovan, slain or hanged by Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare in 1581, and "other sons", who in 1592 were declared illegitimate (i.e., bastards) by the Lord Chancellor Adam Loftus. He was succeeded in 1584 by his eldest "lawful" son by Ellen, Donal II O'Donovan. The younger Teige attempted to contest the succession, alleging Donal II was also a bastard, but failed in his attempt.

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Epithet

Donal's epithet na g-Croiceann or "of the Skins" is believed to come from his being, when a child, wrapped by his mother in cow hides to protect him from the enemies of his father.

Life

Donal is best known for allegedly slaughtering possibly in the area of several hundred of his own kinsfolk, and dispossessing yet still more, to become O'Donovan, Lord of Clancahill. The events as they have come down to later generations are as follows.

Fostered by O'Leary

Diarmaid an Bhairc

References

Further reading

  • Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet, Carberiae Notitia. 1686. extracts published in Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Volume XII, Second Series. 1906. pp. 142–9
  • FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland c. 1100–1600: A Cultural Landscape Study. Boydell Press. 2004.
  • Nicholls, K. W., Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages. Dublin: Lilliput Press. 2nd edition, 2003.
  • Smith, Charles, eds. Robert Day and W. A. Copinger, The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork. Volume I. Volume II. 1750. Cork: Guy & Co. Ltd. 1893.
Preceded by
Teige of Dromasta
O'Donovan
Lord of Clancahill

1560–1584
Succeeded by
Donal II O'Donovan

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