JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY Sir Niall Garbh, Aodh Buidhe and Con 0.g, from whom the families of New,port, Larkfie:d and Castlebar respectively are descended. NEWPORT BRANCH Sir Niall Garbh iWas married to Nuala. sister of Aodh Ruadh. She left him when he was "taken in" by the English and mortally wounded her brother Manus at Lifford in 1600. She later accompanied the Earl to the Continent. Her husband made his submission not out of love for the Crown but as a means of furthering his scheme for the recovery of th€ Chieftainshi-p. He helped his new found ally to wage a ruthless campaign against the indomita:ble Aodh iRuadh. Mountjoy knighted him in 1602. When his kinsman died he commenced to show his independence and had himself inaugurated "O'Domhnaill" in 1603-an action that proved his undoing. He continued to lose favour until 1608 when he 1was arrested at Raphoe in June for his alleged participation in the Sir Cahir O'Doherty Rising of that vear. He was sent to the Tower of London where he died in 1625. His son. Manus, was a Colonel in the Irish Army, being killed at the Battle of Beniburb in 164-6. <Colonel Manus's son Rory migrated from Lifford to Connaught with a large band of follow€rs circa 1654. This was ap- -p<trently -part of the Cromwell.ian transplantation of that iier10~. They settled aibout Ballycr·OY, m the · Barony of Erris, Co. May?, and their d·escendants are still knOIWil as "na h-Ultaigh". Rorv too had a son Manus. He also was a Colonel and fought against William at the Boyne and again at Aughrim. Tradition says that he lived first in South 1Ballycroy and later in the North of Ball:vcroy, beside the Owenmore River. He went surety for s·everal priests at the time of their registration in 1704, his address then <being Rosturk. a place between Newport and Mulranny, on the north shore Of Clew Bay. The Colonel was a person of distinction and is the subject of a poem by Cathaoir Mac Caba in 1Which the year of his death is given as 1736. Manus had three sons, Charles Roe, of Newcastle, Co. Mayo, will Proived . 19th. June, 1770; Hugh Mor, died 1762 and Manus who died in 1767 leaving only daughters. The last named then living in Dublin, emulated the example of his nephew and Cor;, formed in 1764, as did his eldest daughter, Ellinor (who married Caesar French, the noted duellest) three years later. Charles Roe's eldest son tManus was born in 1713. He entered the Austrian :Service at an ear:y age, rose to the ranK of Major~General and was created a Count of the Empire by Maria Theresa. He returned to Ireland, died without a male heir on 21st. December. 1793, and is buried at .Straide Albbey. His brother Lewis also served in Austria where he attained the rank of Captain. He too came back to Ireland, settled at Killeen, Co. Mayo and died in 1822, aged 108 years. We find his son Manus dying of wounds in the British Service on the Continent in 1812-the first of the senior line to fight for the Crorwn since his great - grea tpreat - great - grandfather, Sir Naill Garibh, came to an inglorious end in the Tower of London almost 200 years before. His second son. Lewis, lived at Ross, Co. Mayo, and died in 1841. The latter's son Charles (!born 1'823) was an officer in the Connaught Rangers and died without issue circa 1853. With his death the senior line is brought to a close. 268. 1We must. therefore, return t.o Hugh Mor. brother of Charles Roe. referred to aibove. He was urobably the "Mr. ·O'Donnell of Newport" mentioned in Pocoke's "Tour of Ireland in 1752". He married Maud. the daughte.r of V,alentine Brown o f M o u n t Brown. near Westport. and not of Brownstown as O'Donovan says. Her cousin John conformed
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