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Title: Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim;
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950 Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920 ill
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Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co. limited New York, The Macmillan Company
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ory I maysay something. As far back as we know, Donegal—Dun-na-gal, the fort of theforeigners—was the seat of the ODonnells. Hugh ODonnelland his wife Fingalla, a lady of the OBrien house of Thomond,completed in 1474 the Franciscan monastery which NuaaODonnell, another pious lady, had already founded. In thedays when Red Hugh was a captive, his father, Hugh ODonnellthe conqueror of Shane ONeill, was worn cut and feeble, and anEnglish force in 1593 seized an island in the harbour, occupiedthe Abbey and pillaged the country. It was just at this time 46 THE ODON NELLS CHAl\ that Red Hugh, still a mere boy, reached Ballyshannon, halfdead from the exposure in his terrible flight over the Wicklowhills escaping from Dublin Castle. But hearing of this insulthe mustered his friends who had come to greet him and theymarched on Donegal and quickly put the invaders to rout.His father resigned the ODonnellship in his favour, but RedHugh lived rather on his frontiers and beyond them than in the
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Donegal Castle. ancestral stronghold. Soon he and ONeill were in alliancelevying fierce war on the English, and at Ballinabuie in 1598they inflicted on the English one of the heaviest defeats thatnation ever sustained in Ireland. By 1600 they were mastersof all Ulster and Connaught. A landing had been made atDerry by Sir Henry Docwra, but the little force was closelycooped within its intrenchments by a force of ODonnells, Ill RED HUGH 47 under Red Hughs cousin and brother-in-law, Xial Garv (theFierce), a famous soldier. But now came the fatal weakness.Xial, older than Hugh, counted himself wronged in being passedover for the ODonnellship, and Docwra tempted him withrecognition not only as ODonnell but as Earl of Tyrconnel!.Xial yielded, and, while Red Hugh was ravaging Clare, hisgeneral in the north went over to the English, and by Docwrasown admission changed the whole aspect of affairs. Xial made asudden descent on the fortress at Lifford which opened the waythrough Barnesmore into

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