Talk:List of rulers of Tyrconnell

Some observations

This is kind of a complicated topic because throughout its history as a distinct polity, the rulership over Tyrconnell was almost ALWAYS contested, with multiple credible candidates at any given time. I think you have made the correct choice in making The Annals of the Four Masters the corner stone of your organizing principle. Even if the authors had an "agenda", so to speak, they do offer the most complete account of the transitions of power, and one that can be cross-referenced against other near-contemporary materials.

That said, the first couple of entries seem to provide some erroneous genealogical data. 'Eneas' is almost always an anglicized form of Aonghus rather than Éigneachán, which is usually transliterated into English as something approaching Eneghan, or rendered Ignatius, a Latin name conventionally equated with Éigneachán.

Dálach, genitive form Dálaigh, appears only once in the O'Clery Book of Genealogies as the name of an ancestor who probably lived in the 9th century. He is not the father of the man currently listed as "Eneas Mac Daly", ruling 1201-1207. That ruler is correctly Éigneachán mac Donnchadha.

I can't find any complete copy of O'Clery online, so although I typically would not recommend John O'Hart, he may have to do here. His account of the early O'Donnell pedigrees is, I believe faithful to O'Clery--although I would hesitate to trust O'Hart's authority for much else. Page 643.

A long time ago I compiled a similar list of rulers beginning with Goffraidh O'Donnell, adding some genealogical notes that may superfluous for your purposes.

Compiled from the O'Donovan edition of The Annals of the Four Masters

JackMason1 (talk) 10:53, 3 October 2024 (UTC)