Siege of Donegal

Siege in Ireland that took place in 1601

Siege of Donegal

Part of the Nine Years' War

Donegal Abbey
| Date| August 1601

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Location|

Donegal

Result|  English victory
Belligerents

England

* Loyalists

|  Irish Alliance
Commanders and leaders
Niall Garve O'Donnell
Conn O'Donnell †|  Hugh Roe O'Donnell

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Nine Years' War
(Ireland)

* Belleek
* Enniskillen
* Ford of the Biscuits
* Blackwater Fort
* Clontibret
* Dublin gunpowder explosion
* Carrickfergus
* Yellow Ford
* Deputy's Pass
* Cahir Castle
* Curlew Pass
* Moyry Pass
* Lifford
* Donegal
* Fourth Spanish Armada
* Kinsale
* Castlehaven
* Dunboy
* Dursey
* Dungannon

Participants

The siege of Donegal took place in August 1601 during the Nine Years' War in Ireland, when a Gaelic Irish army led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell laid siege to the town of Donegal.[1] The garrison of the town was a mixture of English troops and allied Gaelic troops led by Niall Garve O'Donnell. Heavy fighting took place during the month-long siege in which Donegal Abbey was destroyed by an accidental gunpowder explosion. Having suffered several repulses, Hugh Roe O'Donnell abandoned the siege and moved his army southwards to Munster where a Spanish force had arrived to support the Irish which culminated in the Battle of Kinsale. In his absence, Crown forces were able to use Donegal as a base to capture the strategic town of Ballyshannon.

Conn O'Donnell was killed during the siege, while fighting for the Crown.

## References

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1. ^ McGurk p.113-16

## Bibliography

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* McGurk, John. Sir Henry Docwra, 1564-1631: Derry's Second Founder. Four Courts Press, 2006.

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