Angus MacDonnell
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Angus MacDonnell, was a son of Alexander MacDonnell
, Lord of Islay
and Kintyre
(Cantire), and Catherine, daughter of the Lord of Ardnamurchan. He was killed during the battle of Glentasie
on 2 May 1565.
Alexander MacDonald, 5th of Dunnyveg
Alexander Carragh Mac Domhnaill, or MacDonald in Scotland, 5th of Dunnyveg , a Scoto-Irish chieftain, who was the son of John Cathanach MacDonald, 4th of Dunnyveg and Cecillia Savage, daughter of the Lord of the Ardes....
, Lord of Islay
Islay
-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...
and Kintyre
Kintyre
Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the southwest of Argyll and Bute. The region stretches approximately 30 miles , from the Mull of Kintyre in the south, to East Loch Tarbert in the north...
(Cantire), and Catherine, daughter of the Lord of Ardnamurchan. He was killed during the battle of Glentasie
Battle of Glentasie
The Battle of Glentaisie, was an Irish battle fought in the north of Ulster on 2 May 1565. The result was a victory for Shane O'Neill over the Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg. The conflict was a part of the political and military struggle, involving the English and occasionally the Scots, for control of...
on 2 May 1565.
Family
He had the following:- Ranald, died in 1595 at the Route, and was buried at Bonamargy FriaryBonamargy FriaryBonamargy Friary is situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, off the Cushendall Road on the approach to Ballycastle. The name Bonamargy means ‘foot of the Margy River’, the river formed by the joining of the Cary River and Shesk Rivers....
. - Alexander, who had a son, Ranald Og, who fought with Alasdair Mac Colla during the War of the Three Kingdoms.