For a portion of another copy of these short annals, see Robin Flower (ed.), Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the British Library [formerly the British Museum] (London, 1926), 253. There appears to be a third, unlocated one in the Royal Irish Academy. The frequent divergences from accuracy in the dates in the Trinity manuscript may in great part be ascribed to the vagaries of the writer, Hugh O'Daly, who penned these short annals in 1747. The entries up to AD 1505 add little to the information in Ireland's major annalistic collections and may have been copied from the reverse page of a leaf from the scribe's sources. 🢀

Coill na gCuiridin, between Stranorlar and Castlefinn, FM 1545. 🢀

This is correct, but the Four Masters give the name wrongly as Cathbharr mac Maghnusa mic Aodha Dhuibh. 🢀

Cobharthach, the name of a well, now obsolete, ibid. 1557. 🢀

Annals of Loch Cé, 1565. FM have Gleann Taise. See Hill: Macdonnells of Antrim, 132-40. 🢀

The date was May 14, FM 1564. 🢀

Fearsad Suilighe, two miles east of Letterkenny, FM 1567. 🢀

Ballymagrorty near Derry. 🢀

FM 1570, where the translation of the entry should run: 'MacSweeny Fanad (Turlough Og, son of Turlough, son of Rory, son of Mulmurry), his brother Hugh Boy Roe, and Mac Sweeny na dTuath (Murrough Mall, son of Owen Og) were treacherously slain at Dun na Long'. 🢀

On the arrival of Sir Henry Sidney as Deputy in the autumn of 1575 Conn O Donnell was a prisoner in Dublin Castle, FM. The arrest really occurred in 1574. 🢀

Aodh, son of Maghnus, d. 1600, had two sons named Rudhraighe. This is the elder. The other was son of An Inghean Dubh, and died in 1608. In the old Irish families it was quite common to have sons similarly named. 🢀

The entry intended there is probably the death of Maghnus, son of Aodh, son of Maghnus—brother of Aodh Ruadh. 🢀

Kiltole in the parish of Raphoe. 🢀

To be precise, O'Donnell was captured at Michaelmas 1587; escaped for the first time on the Eve pf the Epiphany 1591; for the second time a year afterwards; and was inaugurated in the Summer of 1592. See Ir. Eccl. Record, January, 1930, p. 69. 🢀

As in FM, with the addition of the place. 🢀

Maghnus Og O Domhnaill, evidently son of Maghnus the chief, who died in 1563. O'Donovan FM, p. 2378, cites an English MS which states that one of the four wives of Maghnus was 'daughter to McGuire by whom he had issue one son Maghnus Oge'. For Alasdair Mac Domhnaill, son of Somhairle Buidhe, see FM 1586, State Papers 39, and best of all Hill: Macdonnells of Antrim, 186-7: 'Alexander m'Sorlie, who commanded the Scotts, challenged Merriman to a combat; and a lusty gallowglasse being by, said he was the captaine, and so to the duell they go: the gallowglasse stunned the Scotte at the first blow, but he recovering himselfe killed the gallowglasse; and thereupon Merriman stepped out and fought Alexander a good while with sword and target, and so wounded him in the leg that he was forced to retreat. Thereupon his army being discouraged was totally routed; and Alexander being hid under turf in a cabin was discovered, and his head was cut off and set on a pole in Dublin' (quotation from Cox). 🢀

A great victory was won by Sir Richard Bingham at Ardnarea on the Moy, FM 1586. Despatches of Bingham on the affair are in State Papers 164-6. An Irish poem commencing 'Do loisceadh mise san Muaidh', commemorating the deaths of several Macdonnells there is in the MS A.34, in the Irish Franciscan Collection. 🢀

Both events FM 1588. See Calendar of State Papers 516. 🢀

Aodh mac an Deaganaigh, alias Hugh son of Calvagh O Donnell, slain by Inghean Dubh FM 1588: 'O Donnell's wife hath of late caused Hugh mac a Callye to be murdered: this is he that was with your Honours in England, and meant to be O Donnell after this man's death'. State Papers, May 1588, p. 518. 🢀

Spanish Armada 🢀

Conn O Domhnall, father of Niall Garbh, was married to Rose, daughter of Seaan O Neill, d. 1585. O'Donovan FM vi, 2384, enumerates his nine sons, five of whom, including Maghnus, met violent deaths. 🢀

Dun Droing, in Inishowen, see Onomasticon. 🢀

FM 1594; State Papers, August 1594, p. 262. 'The late defeat given to Sir Henry Duke and Sir Edward Herbert, with the loss of all the provisions of victualls in theat convoy'. ibid. 267. 🢀

The battle of the ford of Golune is extensively noticed in the State Papers of October 1593. Maguire suffered a great defeat therein at the hands of Sir Henry Bagenal and the Earl of Tyrone, Hugh O Neill. 'Atha Cooloyne', Calendar 167-68; 'a ford near to Beleek called Cooloyne', 170; Ath Chuile Uain, Life of Aodh Ruadh 64; Ath Cuil Uain, ibid. 142; Ath Chul Uain, FM vi 1940; Philip O Sullevan Beare, like our text, connects the name with the word 'cluain' pratum, meadow. 🢀

Death of Eoghan Og Mac Suibhne na dTuath, 1596 FM. 🢀

FM 1597, 'The name is still remembered, and the ford pointed out, immediately above the great cataract of Assaroe'. 🢀

Referred to by the English as the battle of the Blackwater. 🢀

'On the 22nd of May 1600 wee put the Army in order to march & leauing Captain Launcellott Atford at Culmore with 600 men to make up the workes, we went to the Derry 4 myles of vpon the River side'; 'on the third of October came in Neale Garve O Donnell with 40 horse & 60 Foote, a man I was also directed by the state to winne to the Queene's seruice' (Dowcra's narrative, 238, 244. 🢀

Deposed from the chieftainship in May, 1592; died December 7, 1600, FM who pronounce a remarkable eulogy on him. 🢀

This is an error, as FM chronicle the death of Cathbharr, son of Maghnus 'tanist of Tirconaill' in 1580, in his own mansion seat of Scarriffhollis, see entry 1580. 🢀

'Within two days ... I had noticed Sir John O'Dogherty's death', Feb. 12, 1601, Calendar of State Papers 188. 🢀

Should be 1602, if the New Style is intended. The date was January, FM. 🢀

Translate as follows: 'The setting out of Aodh Ruadh for Kinsale (and he departed from Ireland as a consequence of that journey); and on Saturday, October 29 he set out; and twenty-nine years of age he was on that Saturday, 1602'. The year figure should of course be 1601. O Donnell was close on 15 years of age when he was captured, and close on thirty when he died. This entry is important as showing the time of the year in which Aodh Ruadh was born. 🢀

The year date should be 1602. 🢀

The inauguration of Rury O Donnell as Earl of Tyrconnell took place on September 29, 1603, Carew Papers, 1618, p. 383. 🢀

The first part of this obit is certainly wrong. A letter of date September 27, 1610, reports the recent death of this son of O Neill, see Calendar of State Papers 503. This report I wrongly rejected in The Will and Family of Hugh O'Neill, 31. This was shown in an able paper in The Irish Ecclesiastical Record for September, 1932, by Father Felim O'Brien O.F.M., on Robert Chamberlain, the friend of Henry O Neill. Father Chamberlain's will dated February 7, 1611, refers to him as deceased, loc cit. 276. Again, a short treatise on the history of the Irish Franciscan Province quoted by Father O Brien shows that when O Neill died in 1616 he left an only son (that is, John), and that Henry, as well as Hugh, died prematurely. In passing it may be suggested that the entry in the necrology of the church of San Pietro in Montorio, which Father Meehan cites as recording the death of Henry O Hagan, really chronicles the interment of Henry O Neill in 1610. Henry O Hagan certainly survived the Earl of Tyrone. The second portion of the obit is also erroneous. There can scarcely be a doubt than an Deaganach refers to the Dean of Raphoe, Eoghan mac Tuathail Bhailbh I Ghallchubhair, who died in 1580. Hence the entry must refer to a son of his and we should therefore insert after '&' the word 'mic'. A treatise on the O Gallaghers in 23 D2, p. 1 ff, states that the Dean never received priest's Orders, and that his sons were Eoghan, Tuathal, Felim, etc. Eoghan had a son Eoghan Og according to the same authority. Here they are following in the records of the Plantation of Ulster under date 1615: 'grant to Owen Oge McOwen and Owen McOwen, Edegany,' Hill, 330. Further, 'Owen Oge mc Owen mc Adegaine O Galchor, Owen mc Owen O Galchor', Patent Rolls of James I, July 26, 1608, p. 150, col. 2. The date 1607 is wrong every way. 🢀

This Calbhach (there were two), son of Conn, was slain in 1603, FM. 🢀

In Sir Cahir O Dogherty's rising. 🢀

He was arrested on an information given by An Inghean Dubh. 🢀

Aodh, son of Aodh Dubh, was also known as Aodh Og, and Aodh Dubh. He was brother of Maghnus O Domhnaill the chief, d. 1563, and must have been of great age at his death. His father died in 1537. Advanced to the chieftainship in preference to him were (a) Calbhach, his brother; (b) Aodh, his nephew; and (c) Aodh Ruadh, his grandnephew. Lughaidh O Cleirigh is quite apologetic for his rejection in 1592. A poem was made on this disappointment entitled, Elegy on Aodh, son of Aodh Dubh, which Fearghal Og Mac an Bhaird made while the aforesaid was still living, 24. P. 27, 147; 23. C. 33, 222. 🢀

The elegy on Niall Garbh in Gleanings from Irish Manuscripts (2nd ed.) 27, puts his death at the same date. It is strange there is no mention of it in the contemporary English authorities. O Donovan cites an unnumbered manuscript in the R.I. Academy, which appears to have a copy of our entry. 🢀

'The next Boute the Irish and British had in Ulster was at a place called Glommaquin [Glenmaquin] near Raphoe'. The Warr of Ireland 23: June 9, Diary of O Mellan. Often referred to as the battle of the Lagan. 🢀

Colonel Maghnus O Domhnaill mac Neill Ghairbh, O Mellan, June 1, 1646; killed at Benburb. 🢀