Rudhraighe
"Rory"
Ó Domhnaill
aka O'Donnell
Born in Ireland
Ancestors 
Brother of
Domhnall Ó Domhnaill [half], Cathbarr Ó Domhnaill, Siobhan (O'Donnell) O'Neill [half], Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill [half] and Aodh Ó Domhnaill
Husband of
Bridget (FitzGerald) O'Donnell
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 33
in Rome, Italy
Profile last modified
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1st Earl of Tyrconnell 1603 - 1607 |
Succeeded by Aodh Ailbhe mac Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill |
Biography
Rory O'Donnell was born in 1575, the second son of Hugh O'Donnell and Inghin Dhubh MacDonnell. [1]
Rory married Bridget Fitzgerald, daughter of the 12th Earl of Kildare. She married 2nd to Nicholas Barnewall, 1st Viscount Kingsland.
Children of Rory and Bridget
- Hugh O'Donnell, became 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell
- Mary Stuart O'Donnell born in England after her father left Ireland.
Rory sailed from Lough Swilly with the Flight of the Earls
Rory died on 28 July 1608 in Rome, aged 33 years. His remains were buried in the church of San Pietro di Montorio. [2]
Sources
- ↑ Rory O'Donnell by Richard Bagwell in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/O%27Donnell,_Rory_(DNB00)
- ↑ "A compendium of Irish biography: comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen, and of Eminent Persons Connected with Ireland by Office or by their Writings." by Alfred Webb, publ 1878 p 393 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwkpgr;view=1up;seq=403;size=125
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