Owen Roe Inishowen County Donegal. Is It Named After Owen Roe O Neill/?

Inishowen county donegal. Is it named after Owen Roe O Neill/? - owen roe

Hey Mary J

"Prior to the establishment of Donegal has been for centuries, the region named Inis Eoghain (the island of Eoghan) after Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine hostages (Niall Naoigeallach, a King of Ireland), whose name is also used for Irish Tyrone (: SHOOTING Eoghain ). Inis Eoghain is also the ancestral home of Clan Mac Lochlainn (descendants of the tribe Eoghan), a clan that has become so big that he eventually by the king of Limerick, the North Aileach came and ordered the destruction of the fortress was besieged Aileach and each soldier to carry the stone fortress to prevent reconstruction. Later, after the fall of Mac Lochlainn clan, the chief of Inis Eoghain Ó Dochartaigh was torn by the clan itself, when he lost his land in the valley of Tir Conaill Laggan .