[Ancestor] Donohoe

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1 M Edward Donohoe ¹

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         Spouse: Judith Brennan (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Donohoe

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In the Province of Leinster, located in the southeastern part of Ireland, lies Ballyellin, in County Carlow, a section romantic and charming in both scenery and history. And here, among the families of the nobility, the name "Donohoe" is prominent as it was generations ago. The Irish form of the name was O'Donchoda, or O'Donchu, anglicized O'Donocho, and modernized, O'Donoghue and O'Donohoe. Of the Eugenian Clan of the Milesian race, it is one of the ancient Irish families that have survived the Elizabethan War, and the Strafford and Cromwellian devastations in Ireland. The family history records that in the tenth century, Brian Boru, the greatest King of Ireland, bestowed upon the head of the Clan the title of "Prince of Lough Lein," and in the famous battle of Clontarf, a battle for religion and country against paganism and bondage, where a list of the dead was a roll of the Danish and Irish nobility, and in which Brian Born was killed, The O'Donoghoe led the Irish center division. There were several branches of this family, which is descended from Cas, son of Corc, King of Munster, eighty-nine on the line of Heber Fionn, the first Milesian monarch of Ireland, namely, Princes of Lough Lein, County Kerry, Lords of Glenfesk, O'Donoghues of Cashel and O'Donoghues of Ossory, but the branch from which Thomas Donohoe was descended was that of the Princes of Lough Lein, the ancient patrimony of whose house is in County Kerry, "The O'Donoghoe of the Glen," being now the recognized head.
The modernized form of the name (O'Donohoe) has been reserved to designate the head of the Clan, and is used by him alone, but some centuries ago the simpler form of "Donohoe," as it is now written, was adopted by the family, as was done of the names of many Irish families of distinction of that period.
In 1774 Morgan Donohoe, the great-grandfather of Thomas Donohoe, removed from Leighlin for political reasons, into County Carlow, where, in Goresbridge, Ballyellin, he established the home in which his son Henry, his grandson Edward, and great-grandson Thomas Donohoe, were born.
The family coat-of-arms, which is of interest, is as follows Vert, two foxes combatant argent, on a chief of the second an eagle volant sable. Crest : An arm in armour, embowed, holding a sword entwined with a snake, all proper, and its accompanying motto, Nunquam non paratus, translated "Always prepared."

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 566.