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Official (Mac) Sweeney Doe Clan

(Member of Clans of Ireland Ltd - established at the instigation of the Irish Government 1989 to co-ordinate Irish Clan activities.)

Event 2007: Remembering the Flight of the Earls/ Imeacht na nIarlaí | The Niall Mór Headstone |  Event 2006 Remembering the 90th Anniversary of the death of Tarlagh Mac Sweeney An Píobaire Mór, 1831-1916, | Event 2005 - Remembering the 400th Anniversary of the execution of Eoghan Óg Mac Sweeney. |  Donegal Person of the Year 2004.  |  The Genealogical Table of the Mac Sweeney Chiefs of Doe | Randal MacDonald of Keppoch, Chief of the Name  |   "At Arm's Length - Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland"  | The current Mac Sweeney Doe | Doe Castle Graveyard |Event 2004 Remembering the Battle of Knockdoe 1504 |   Great Book of Irish Genealogies  | Gallowglas | Event 2003: Remembering Daniel Mac Sweeney 1830-1893  | Event 2002: Remembering Daniel Mór Sweeney of Derryveagh 1840-1901 | Event 2001: Remembering the March to Kinsale | Event 2000: Recalling Myles Mac Sweeney's swim to Freedom  | History of Mac Sweeney Doe | Obituary  |  Like the Thirteenth Chime,.| Related links  |  Contact us

"All truth passes through three stages: firstly it is ridiculed , secondly, it is violently opposed, and thirdly, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenauer, - philosopher (1788 - 1860)

                              

        Castle of Mac Sweeney Doe at Creeslough, Co. Donegal - mid 19th century.

Aims:

(a)  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;

(b)  to promote and preserve the history of our ancestors, the Mac Sweeney Chiefs of Doe, and the fate of their lineal descendants;

(c)  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;

(d)  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;

(e)  to continue the restoration work we have begun on the graves of our direct ancestors - the Chiefs of Doe - in Doe Castle graveyard;

(f)  to discover other lineal "Descendants of Mac Sweeney Doe" in Ireland and overseas.

                                                                                     Revised July 1,  2007.