Siege of Donegal
{{Short description|Siege in Ireland that took place in 1601}}
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|conflict= Siege of Donegal
|partof=the Nine Years' War
|image= Donegal Friary Choir 2009 09 23.jpg
|caption= Donegal Abbey
|date= August 1601
|place= Donegal
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|result= English victory
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|combatant2= Irish Alliance
|commander1= Niall Garve O'Donnell
Conn O'Donnell{{KIA}}
|commander2= Hugh Roe O'Donnell
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The siege of Donegal took place from August to September 1601 during the Nine Years' War in Ireland, when a Gaelic Irish army led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell laid siege to the town of Donegal.McGurk p.113-16 The garrison of the town was a mixture of English troops and allied Gaelic troops led by Niall Garve O'Donnell. Heavy fighting took place during the month-long siege in which Donegal Abbey was destroyed by an accidental gunpowder explosion. Having suffered several repulses, Hugh Roe O'Donnell abandoned the siege and moved his army southwards to Munster where a Spanish force had arrived to support the Irish which culminated in the Battle of Kinsale. In his absence, Crown forces were able to use Donegal as a base to capture the strategic town of Ballyshannon.
Conn O'Donnell was killed during the siege, while fighting for the Crown.
References
= Citations =
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= Sources =
- {{cite book |last=McGurk |first=John |title=Sir Henry Docwra, 1564–1631: Derry's Second Founder |publisher=Four Courts Press |year=2006 |isbn=1-85182-948-2}}
Further reading
=Primary sources=
- {{Cite book |url=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100005E.html |title=Annals of the Four Masters |publisher=((CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts)) |year=2008 |ref={{sfnref|Annals of the Four Masters|2008}} |orig-date=1636}}
- {{Cite book |last= |url=https://archive.org/details/1912calendarofstatep11greauoft |title=Calendar of the State Papers relating to Ireland, 1601-03 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office |year=1912 |editor-last=Mahaffy |editor-first=Robert Pentland}}
- {{Cite book |last1=O'Clery |first1=Lughaidh |author-link=Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh |url=https://archive.org/details/beathaaodharuaid00ocle |title=Beatha Aodha Ruaidh ui Dhomhnaill. The life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, prince of Tirconnell (1586-1602) |last2=O'Clery |first2=Cucogry |last3=Murphy |first3=Denis |date=1895 |publisher=Fallon & Co. |others=Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 |location=Dublin}}
- {{Cite book |last=O'Sullivan Beare |first=Philip |author-link=Philip O'Sullivan Beare |url=https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100060.html |title=Chapters towards a History of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth |publisher=((CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts)) |year=1903 |translator-last=Byrne |translator-first=Matthew J. |orig-date=1621 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310171522/https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100060.html |archive-date=10 March 2024 |url-status=live}}
=Secondary sources=
- {{Cite journal |last=Clavin |first=Terry |date=October 2009 |title=O'Donnell, Sir Niall Garvach |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/odonnell-sir-niall-garvach-a6345 |url-status= |journal=Dictionary of Irish Biography |doi=10.3318/dib.006345.v1 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103175741/https://www.dib.ie/biography/odonnell-sir-niall-garvach-a6345 |archive-date=3 January 2024 |doi-access=free}}
- {{cite DNB|wstitle=O'Donnell, Hugh Roe|volume=40|last=Dunlop|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Dunlop (historian)|pages=436-440}}
- {{Cite web |last=McGinty |first=Matthew |date=2024-11-29 |title=Red Hugh O’Donnell, Niall Garbh O’Donnell and the Siege of Donegal Abbey |url=https://earlymodernmatthew.substack.com/p/red-hugh-odonnell-niall-garbh-odonnell |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=Tales from Early Modern Ireland}}
- {{Cite book |last=McGettigan |first=Darren |url=https://archive.org/details/darren-mc-gettigan-red-hugh-o-donnell-and-the-nine-years-war-2005-four-courts-pr-ltd-libgen.li |title=Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Nine Years War |publisher=Four Courts Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-8518-2887-6 |location=Dublin |ol=OL11952048M}}
- {{Cite book |last=O'Neill |first=James |url=https://archive.org/details/nineyearswar15930000onei |title=The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution |date=2017 |publisher=Four Courts Press |isbn=978-1-84682-754-9 |location=Dublin}}
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