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The DONOVAN / O'DONOVAN Families of C18th & C19th County Cork, Ireland

- Updated May 2012 -

In modern Irish the name is O Donnabhain and is formed from two Gaelic words donn (brown) and dubhan (a derivative of dubh – black).

1. The DONOVAN Family of Dromdeegy, Dunmanway North, County Cork

This DONOVAN family lived in the area of Dunmanway North, County Cork. Earliest church records give their location as Droumde*ga (now Dromdeegy), situated 5km north of Dunmanway (see map below), with the head of this family suspected to be Timothy DONOVAN. Dromdeegy is adjacent to the Derrylahan township which was the origin of the family according to verbal history. Children:

• Mary DONOVAN (birth date unknown, but before 1826) = Michael CROWLEY by 1844 (marriage not found). Children John CROWLEY (Nov 1844) & Margaret CROWLEY (Feb 1850) of Derreens, NE of Dunmanway;

• Denis DONOVAN (before 1814) = Mary MANNING (c1810-13) of the same place in 1832 Dunmanway. Witnesses: Cornelius MANNING & Timothy DONOVAN. Note that in oral history Denis was incorrectly named as John. All the couple’s children baptised in Dunmanway are given of Derrylahan (or variants) and otherwise match oral history except for the father being Denis:

  • Catherine DONOVAN (1834);

  • Mary DONOVAN (1837);

  • Ellen DONOVAN (1839);

  • Julia DONOVAN (1841);

  • Richard DONOVAN (1843);

  • Norry DONOVAN (1845) – short form of Hanora;

  • Michael "The Count" O'DONOVAN (1847-1924), town clerk of Clonakilty, married Margaret HARNETT (1848-1882) before 1880. They lived in Soverign Street, Clonakilty, and had son Denis Joseph O'DONOVAN (1880-1906). Michael later remarried to Mary FITZPATRICK (1848-1924), my wife's 2xGGPs, in 1884 Rosscarbery and had children:

    • Michael Richard O'DONOVAN (1886-1919);

    • Mary Bridget O'DONOVAN aka Bridie (1897-1960); m. Felix O'NEILL, my wife's GPs;

    • Julia O'DONOVAN (n. & d. 1888);

    • John Joseph O'DONOVAN (Count) (1889-1920) m. Minnie MAHONEY in 1918;

    • Catherine O'DONOVAN (1891-92).

  • John O'DONOVAN (of Castle Street, Dunmanway) with wife unknown had at least one son:

    • Timothy O'DONOVAN = Molly SULLIVAN. Their four sons:

      • Tim (Teddy) O'DONOVAN (c1903 Cork -2005 Westchester, New York, USA) = Kit:

        • Ann Marie O’DONOVAN;

        • Julie O’DONOVAN;

      • Cornelius (Con) O'DONOVAN (1907) – Main Street, Dunmanway. Unmarried;

      • Mike O'DONOVAN (c1924) = Eileen HARTEY in New York, USA. US children:

        • Colleen O'DONOVAN;

        • Jimmy O'DONOVAN;

        • Maureen O'DONOVAN;

        • Michael O'DONOVAN;

        • Timothy O'DONOVAN;

        • Tommy O'DONOVAN;

      • James (Jimmy) DONOVAN (c1929) =. Eileen KEARNEY of Dunmanway (Eileen d/o Madge COLLINS & James KEARNEY was also granddaughter of Ann O'NEILL & Tom COLLINS (Ann, sister of Felix O'NEILL above)) have descendants in Co. Cork, Ireland and the US.:

        • Mary E O'DONOVAN (1949);

        • Michael J O'DONOVAN (1952);

        • Monica O'DONOVAN (1956);

        • Timothy N O'DONOVAN (1958);

        • Teresita M O'DONOVAN (1958);

        • Annette M O'DONOVAN (after 1958);
          
          

• Richard O'DONOVAN (c1817, based on family stories - history unknown);

• Michael DONOVAN (c1819-81) = Ellen MANNING (c1815) of the same place in 1838 Dunmanway, with the same witnesses: Cornelius MANNING & Timothy DONOVAN. It is confirmed that Denis & Michael were brothers (with father Timothy) and that they married MANNING sisters, which supports oral family histories. Their children of Derrylahan:

  • Mary DONOVAN (1841);

  • Timothy DONOVAN (1843). Resident in Main Street, Dunmanway;

  • James DONOVAN (1845);

  • Denis DONOVAN (1847);

    
    

    
    
    

2. The DONOVAN Family of Shannonvale, Clonakilty, County Cork

- Updated May 2012 -

Anne O'DONOVAN (c1822) of Shannonvale, NE of Clonakilty (see map below) married John O'NEILL of Reenroe, Clonakilty in March 1840 at Clonakilty. These are the GPs of Felix O'NEILL (above).

After marriage, Anne joined her husband at the family farm at Reenroe (just outside Kilgarriffe, north of Clonakilty) and would have died there (coming under the Clonakilty registration district).

Records relating specifically to Shannonvale are rare, and Anne may be the d/o Dan DONOVAN & Elizabeth NEIL baptised there in 1831 (assuming a late baptism). Six children were baptised in Clonakilty to this couple between 1824 & 1835, having married in Jan 1823 Rosscarbery. This would make Anne a premarriage child and may account for the late baptism.

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