O'Donnell, Calvagh

O'Donnell, Calvagh

died Oct. 26?, 1566, near Derry, County Londonderry, Ire.

      Irish lord of Tyrconnell, foe and captive of the celebrated Shane O'Neill (O'Neill, Shane).

      The son of Manus O'Donnell, Calvagh quarreled with his father and his half-brother Hugh and sought aid in Scotland from the MacDonnells, who assisted him in deposing Manus and securing the lordship of Tyrconnell for himself. Hugh then appealed to Shane O'Neill, who invaded Tyrconnell at the head of a large army in 1557 to secure supremacy over Ulster and encamped on the shore of Lough Swilly. Calvagh surprised the O'Neills in their camp at night and routed them.

      Calvagh was then recognized by the English government as lord of Tyrconnell; but in 1561 he and his wife were captured by Shane O'Neill in the monastery of Kildonnell. His wife, Catherine Maclean, who had previously been the wife of the Earl of Argyll, was kept by Shane O'Neill as his mistress and bore him several children, though grossly ill-treated by her savage captor; Calvagh himself was subjected to atrocious torture during the three years that he remained O'Neill's prisoner. He was released in 1564 on conditions that he had no intention of fulfilling; and, crossing to England, he appealed to Queen Elizabeth I. In 1566 Sir Henry Sidney marched to Tyrconnell, and restored Calvagh to his rights. Calvagh, however, died in the same year; and because his son Conn was a prisoner in the hands of Shane O'Neill, his half-brother Hugh MacManus was inaugurated The O'Donnell in his place.

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