McDonnell Family Crest, Coat of Arms & McDonnell Name Origin



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Origin of the Name McDonnell



The ancient history of the name McDonnell was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Families of the name McDonnell have a number of origins. Some are descendants of the Scottish Clan from Argyle whose Chief was Lord of the Isles. They arrived in Ireland in the thirteenth century and established themselves as Gallowglass warriors to the Chiefs in the North of the country. The family gradually acquired much territory and by the fifteenth century they were established in the Glens of Antrim. Randal MacSorley MacDonnell, the head of the family, was created Earl of Antrim in the year 1620. Other bearers of the name can be of Irish origin from the septs located in Thomond and the western part of Ulster .
A sept or clan is a collective term describing a group of persons whose immediate ancestors bore a common surname and inhabited the same territory. Irish septs and clans that are related often belong to even larger groups, sometimes called tribes.
The Gaelic form of this name is MacDhomhnaill meaning 'son of Daniel' and is most often anglicized as McDonnell but also as McConnell.
The McDonnell coat of arms came into existence centuries ago. The process of creating coats of arms (also often called family crests) began in the eleventh century although a form of Proto-Heraldry may have existed in some countries prior to this. The new art of Heraldry made it possible for families and even individual family members to have their very own coat of arms, including all McDonnell descendants.
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