Hugh Buidhe Mac Donnell

   Other names for Hugh were Hugh Boy and Hugh Buy.

  General Notes:

The following comes from Irish Midlands Ancestry and Smidt Family History

HUGH BUIDHE: THIS HUGH WAS CHIEF OF ONE OF
" THREE SEPTS OF GALLOGLASSES OF THE CLAN DONNELLS, "
IN LEINSTER IN HIS TIME.

LORD OF THE MANORS OF TENEKILLE AND BALLYCRASSEL, QUEEN'S CO.

Hugh Buidhe or Hugh-Buide or Hugh Buy or Hugh Boy ...
THE CLAN DONALD OF CONNAUGHT. Vol. II, Chapter 4 page 129

Not long after the eulogium upon the "auntient continual fydelitie" of the Clan Donald of Leinster, there is much reason to fear that Hugh of Tynekill, with the other MacDonald Captains, quitted for a season the prudent paths of loyalty. Towards the end of the sixteenth century , the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill was threatening to over whealm the English power in Ireland. After the death of Shane O'Neill, his kinsman Hugh, son of the Baron of Dungannon, assumed the title of Earl of Tyrone with the consent of the English Government. In 1597, however, he assume da much more ancient, and distinctly more dangerous designation, namely, the O'Neill. It was one of those cases in which there is much in a name. We who know the devotion of the Western Clans of' Scotland to the very title Lord of the Isles, and how dangerous this sentimental attachment often proved to the State, can understand the motives of policy which banned unlawful title like O'Neill, which clustered so many traditional glories. O'Neill was a name to conjur with in the North of' Ireland, and there fore must be suppressed. Thus it was that Hugh O'Neill, in assmning the immemorial title, was guilty of an act of rebellion. But he went further. The assumption of the dignity was but a symbol of resistance to the power of the alien. He unfurled his banner and gathered round him not only those of his own name and lineage, but the minor septs who owed him vassalage and sympathised with his resistance to England, such as the Magennisses, Maemahons, and MacDonalds. The Clan Donald of Leinster took action along with the O'Moores, a neighbouring sept, on the side of the Earl of Tyrone.

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This Hugh was Chief of one of "Three Septs of Galloglasses of the Clan Donnells," in Leinster in his time.
(Chief of the Galloglas of Leinster )

  Noted events in his life were:

• Title: 5th of Leinster.

Hugh married Máire ÓMore.