Doe Castle today.

 Website 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 Mac Sweeney Doe, Lord of Tua Tory and lineal descendant of  Sir Myles/ Maolmhuire Mac Sweeney Chief of Doe, 1596 - 1630".

Cf. "Annals of the Four Masters",    p.  2341,  O Donovan translation,

Donegal Ordnance Survey Letters Edited by Michael Herrity MRIA (Four Master's Press, 2000) p. 26

O Hart's "Irish Pedigrees" (Healy Dublin, 1878)  p. 297.

Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne/ Book of the Mac Sweeneys, Ed.  Fr. P. Walsh (Dollard, 1920) p. xxxvi.

Peter Berresford Ellis, "Erin's Blood Royal", (Palgrave, 2002) p. 289.

Anne Chambers, "At Arm's Length - Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland"  (New Island Books, 2004) www.newisland.ie

Sweeney Clan Association "Fanad Doe Banagh" (pub. 1997)  pp 75,  107, 127/8.