Donnell McTiege Oure O'Carroll (abt. 1560 - abt. 1642)

Born about 1560 in Ballymacadam Castle, Ballybritt, Eile O'Carroll, (Cadamstown, County Offaly) Ireland

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Died about 1642 at about age 82 in Ballymooney, Seirkieran, Kings County, (County Offaly) Ireland

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Donnell O'Carroll was born in Ireland.

Biography

Donnell McTiege Oure O'Carroll, was born circa 1570, at Ballymacadam Castle at Litterluna, Ballybritt in the 'kingdom' of Eile in the midlands of Ireland.

The Eile O'Carroll lands were shired in Kings County (Offaly) in 1605, and nothing remains of Ballymacadam castle which was located at the village of current day Cadamstown in County Offaly.

Donnell is also variously referred to as Donal, Donat, Domnall and Donnaugh, since names were translated phonetically from Gaelic and spellings differed. From the early 1600's, Donnell called himself Daniel Carroll of Kenechane and Ballymooney under the plantation policies of Ireland at the time.

Ballymacadam Castle (B'aile MacAdam Castle) sometimes known as Baile M'Carroll) was one of a number of O'Carroll strongholds along the borders of the Eile O'Carroll lands. It was taken by Edward Bellingham's commander Edmund Fahy, in 1548, by violent means, and the O'Carrolls in turn took it back by force in 1550. It was eventually surrendered under the 'surrender and re-grant' policy a few decades later. Lands at Killygreghane were also surrended to the English by Donnell O'Carroll.

'In 1594, the Ballym'Carroll, parcel of lands of Gillekeaghe M'Carroll, and of Ballymack-Carroll, lapsed to the crown. [Printed on the back of a Bookmark, produced by Classic Designs Ltd - see Coat of Arms].

Donnell O'Carroll was re-granted significant acreage at Sierkieran about 15km south west of Litterluna, in exchange for: surrendering his property, anglicizing his name and adopting English farming and building ways. He agreed to take on only English settler tenants, as another condition of the re-grant and in 1622 he built Ballymooney Castle, a 4 storey fortified abode of which only ruins remain today, in a cow paddock.

Donnell married Elspeth Campbell

Note

Eslpeth Campbell is not to be confused with the Scots woman of the same name who married Laird Ian McFarland, 15th Baron of Arrochar and was the illegitimate daughter of Archibald Campbell 5th Earl of Argyll )

Son

In about 1632 Daniel and Elspeth had a son known as Daniel Carroll of Ballymooney. Their son Daniel fought in the 1641 uprising (Confederate wars) and nearly all the family land was confiscated as a consequence of joining this rebellion.

Donnell died around 1642 and his son Daniel was transplanted to County Mayo by the English in 1657 and went into exile in Spain where he died before 1661.

Sources

• Hoffman, Ronald (2000). Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-5347-X. Pages 29 - 59 and Appendix 6.
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mallorybrody/Eire/Ulster/OCarroll_Family_History.htm authored by Colin R O'Carroll, Johannesburg and David S O'Carroll, UK, 1997. Original documents held in family collections in Gower. Wales by [O'Carroll-105|David O'Carroll}, Cape Town, South Africa by [O'Carroll-66|Joe O'Carroll] and Australia by [O'Carroll-61|Susan O'Carroll].
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mallorybrody/Eire/Ulster/OCarroll_Family_History.htm
• http://www.thestandingstone.ie/2009/09/ballymooney-castle-oakleypark-co-offaly.html
• http://www.geograph.ie/photo/2494240
• Last Name: O'Carroll Given Name and Status:Daniel McTeige Oure (Patent Roll) Date: 1638 Location: Kings Film #: 596419 T, Box & Order #: 5056, pg 3 Item Order: 31 of 262 Source Information J and J Limited Company. Irish Records Index, 1500-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: J and J Limited Company. Index to Irish Wills. Vol. 1-2. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: J and J Limited Company, 1998.