Calvach Mac Donnell

   Another name for Calvach was Tirlough Móhr.

  General Notes:

The following comes from Irish Midlands Ancestry

Charles Thurlough Mor McDonald, born in Antrim; died 1435. He was the son of Marcus McDonald and Amy. He married Catirfina O'Ruaire.

In or about the year 1420 Charles, the brother of Sumhairle Buidhe McDonnell migrated with a hand of followers from O'Kelly's Country in South Galway into Leinster and founded the Galloglagh, under the O'Kellys of Maine, a region on the border of Leitrim and Cavan. In 1419 Charles MacDonnell and his son escaped from a battle at the mouth of Ath Lighen with MacWilliam Bourke and his connection with the O'Kellys appears to have come to an end. Soon after this Charles, son of Marcus and his son, John Carrach, migrated to Queens County, in all probability accompanied by a large number of their tribe. These settlers soon acquired a considerable tract of country including Tynekill Castle at the base of the boundary of the mountains of Leix and Wicklow, which forms a part of the boundary of the English Pale, their lands being known for ages as the Clan Donnell Country. The position taken by Charles and his son, John Carrach, thus became defined as the necessities of their English neighbors. They became Constables of the Pale or wardens of the Marshes, and were permitted to appropriate the extensive tract of country with which they were connected for upwards of two hundred years. See The Clan of Connaught and Leinster, p. 121.

Charles, son of Marcus MacDonnell, the first of the Clan Donald of Leinster, died in 1435 and was succeeded by his son, John Carragh, who is described by the Analysts as, "The best Captain of the English". This John Carragh MacDonnell was fighting in Offaly in 1466 where he was slain. See Ulster J. Arch. II, p. 34.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Title: 3rd of Knocknacloy.

Calvach married Catirfina O'Ruaire. (Catirfina O'Ruaire was born in 1412 and died in 1455.)