Fáilte to the Website of the "Descendants of Mac Sweeney Doe".

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=300 BGCOLOR="#C0DCC0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d301b00.jpg" border=0 width="257" height="176" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Doe Castle today.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> Website</B><B> </B><B>developed by direct  descendants of Eamon Rua Mac Sweeney, recognized, 1835, by the great historian Dr. John O Donovan and by "all the O Donnells and the Mac Sweeneys and by every old Millesian from Fanaid to Ballyshannon as</B><I><B> </B></I><B>Mac Sweeney Doe,</B><I><B> </B></I><B>Lord of Tua Tory</B><I><B> </B></I><B>and lineal descendant of  Sir Myles/ Maolmhuire Mac Sweeney Chief of Doe, 1596 - 1630".</B></div> <div> Cf. "Annals of the Four Masters",    p.  2341,  O Donovan translation,</div> <div> Donegal Ordnance Survey Letters Edited by Michael Herrity MRIA (Four Master's Press, 2000) p. 26</div> <div> O Hart's "Irish Pedigrees" (Healy Dublin, 1878)  p. 297.</div> <div> Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne/ Book of the Mac Sweeneys, Ed.  Fr. P. Walsh (Dollard, 1920) p. xxxvi. </div> <div> Peter Berresford Ellis, "Erin's Blood Royal", (Palgrave, 2002) p. 289.</div> <div> Anne Chambers, "At Arm's Length - Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland"  (New Island Books, 2004) www.newisland.ie</div> <div> Sweeney Clan Association "Fanad Doe Banagh" (pub. 1997)  pp 75,  107, 127/8.</div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>  <html> <head> <title>Sweeney Clan Doe Website</title> <meta name="description" content=" History, Heritage and Fate of the Mac Sweeney Chiefs of Doe, Doe Castle, County Donegal, and the fate of their lineal descendants, reunions, gatherings, anniversaries, events."> <meta name="keywords" content= "Sweeney Clan Doe, the lordship of Mac Sweeney Doe, Doe Castle, County Donegal, Sweeney, Mac Sweeney, MacSweeney, McSweeney, Irish Clan, reunions, gatherings, anniversaries, events."> <meta name="generator" content="CuteHTML">  </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Fáilte to the Web Site of the Descendants of Mac Sweeney Doe</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Official (Mac) Sweeney Doe Clan</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>(Member of Clans of Ireland Ltd - established at the instigation of the Irish Government 1989 to co-ordinate Irish Clan activities.)</B></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id49____unlockunlock.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2008: Remembering Cathbar O Donne"><U><B>Event 2008</B></U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id49____unlockunlock.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2008: Remembering Cathbar O Donne"><U><B>:</B></U></A><A HREF="id49____unlockunlock.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2008: Remembering Cathbar O Donne"><U>  Remembering Cathbar O Donnell and Cuchonacht Óg Maguire</U></A><A HREF="id49____unlockunlock.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2008: Remembering Cathbar O Donne"><U>.</U></A> </FONT>|  <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Niall Mór Headstone"><U>The Niall Mór Headstone</U></A> |  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2007: Flight of the Earls/ Imeacht"><U>Event 2007: Remembering the Flight of the Earls/ Imeacht na nIarlaí</U></A> |</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2006, Remembering the 90th anniver"><U>Event 2006</U></A></FONT><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2006, Remembering the 90th anniver"><U> Remembering the 90th Anniversary of the death of Tarlagh Mac Sweeney An P</U></A>í<A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2006, Remembering the 90th anniver"><U><I>obaire Mór, 1831-1916</I></U></A><I>, </I>  |<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2005 Remembering the 400th annive"><U>Event 2005</U></A></FONT><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Event 2005 Remembering the 400th annive"><U> - Remembering the 400th Anniversary of the execution of Eoghan Óg Mac Sweeney. </U></A> |  <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Donegal Person of the Year 2004"><U>Donegal Person of the Year 2004.</U></A>  |  <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Genealogical Table of the Mac Sweeney Ch"><U>The Genealogical Table of the Mac Sweeney Chiefs of Doe |</U></A> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ranald MacDonald of Keppoch, Chief of th"><U> Randal MacDonald of Keppoch, Chief of the Name</U></A>  |  <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" AT ARMS LENGTH Aristocrats in the Rep"><U> "At Arm's Length - Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland"</U></A>  |  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" The current Mac Sweeney Doe "><U>The current Mac Sweeney Doe</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > | </FONT><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Doe Castle Graveyard."><U>Doe Castle Graveyard</U></A>  |<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >Event 2004</FONT> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Event 2004 Remembering the Battle of K"><U> Remembering the Battle of Knockdoe 1504</U></A> |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Great Book of Irish Genealogies "><U>Great Book of Irish Genealogies  |</U></A> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Galloglas"><U>Gallowglas</U></A> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >|</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Remembering Daniel Mac Sweeney 18301893"><U>Event 2003: </U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Remembering Daniel Mac Sweeney 18301893"><U>Remembering Daniel Mac Sweeney 1830-1893</U></A>  |  </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel Mór Sweeney of Derryveagh 1840190"><U> Event 2002:</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Daniel Mór Sweeney of Derryveagh 1840190"><U> Remembering Daniel Mór Sweeney of Derryveagh 1840-1901</U></A> |   </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Remembering the March to Kinsale Event"><U> Event 2001:</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Remembering the March to Kinsale Event"><U> Remembering the March to Kinsale </U></A> | </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial Narrow" > <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recalling Myles Mac Sweeneys Swim to Fre"><U>Event 2000:</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recalling Myles Mac Sweeneys Swim to Fre"><U> Recalling Myles Mac Sweeney's swim to Freedom</U></A>  | <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mac Sweeney Doe "><U> History of Mac Sweeney Doe </U></A> | </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CC0033" FACE="Arial Narrow" > </FONT><A HREF="id42_obituary.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Obituary. "><U>Obituar</U></A>y<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >  |  </FONT><A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="(NEW) Like the Thirteenth Chime, "><U>Like the Thirteenth Chime,.</U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" >| <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U>Related links</U></A>  |  <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact us"><U>Contact us </U></A> </FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>"All truth passes through three stages: firstly it is ridiculed , secondly, it is violently opposed, and thirdly, it is accepted as self-evident."</I><I><B> </B></I><I> </I>Arthur Schopenauer, - philosopher (1788 - 1860)</div> <div>                           <IMG SRC="0af53040.jpg" border=0 width="339" height="260" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">    </div> <div>         Castle of Mac Sweeney Doe at Creeslough, Co. Donegal - mid 19th century.</div> <div> <B>Aims:</B></div> <div> <B>(a</B>)  to provide, via the web, definitive information re the history of the Mac Sweeney lordships of Fanad, Doe and Banagh from earliest times to the present day;</div> <div> <B>(b)</B>  to promote and preserve the history of our ancestors, the Mac Sweeney Chiefs of Doe, and the fate of their lineal descendants;</div> <div> <B>(c)</B>  to commemorate events associated with the Mac Sweeney lordships of Donegal and to invite Sweeneys/ Mac Sweeneys, their descendants and colleagues, to join us in unity and friendship;</div> <div> <B>(d)</B>  to persuade the Government Department responsible for the restoration of Doe Castle, the ancient seat of the Mac Sweeney Chiefs of Doe, to complete the restoration fully;</div> <div> <B>(e)</B>  to continue the restoration work we have begun on the graves of our direct ancestors - the Chiefs of Doe - in Doe Castle graveyard;</div> <div> <B>(f)</B>  to discover other lineal "Descendants of Mac Sweeney Doe" in Ireland and overseas.</div> <div>                                                          <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >                        <B>Revised August 26,  2008.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div>  </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>