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Rossmore
Clonakilty
Co. Cork
Ireland
The ancestors of Donnacha Mór (Denis) Rossa are traced back to Teige Mac Teige, Dermot Mac Teige MacEneslis ( - 1688), Donal O'Donovan Rossa (Teige) who married Joanna Reagh, and more recently to Joseph O'Donovan Rossa.
There were two main branches of the O'Donovans, these were Clan Cathail and Clan Lochlainn. However, the use of various nicknames used after Donovan was adopted to distinguish different families in an area with similar surnames. These nicknames are called 'agnomens'. Agnomen names used by Donovan clans include Scartagh, Reagh, Baid, Island, Donn, Dhiel, Bawn, Blackstaff and Mountain. Some of these were also used by other families.
Donnacha Mór (Denis) O'Donovan Rossa was born in Rossmore, Clonakilty and it is from that townland that the name "Rossa" came. His father wad Donal O'Donovan.
Donnacha Mór a Rossa married Julia O'Donovan Island. He died in 1793 at Milleen, Rosscarbery where his eldest son, Denis, lived.
Denis and Julia had children:-
Denis married a McCarthy-Meening of East Carbery
Daniel married an O'Mahony Bán of Shounlaragh
John married a Callanan of East Carbery
Cornelius married an O'Sullivan Bua'aig
Flor married an O'Driscoll, a sister to Teige oge O'Driscoll of Derryclathagh.
There were 3 girls too:-
one married a Lee from Clonakilty
another a Barrett from Caheragh
the third an O'Sullivan from Mountain Common
Note: One of the above sons had a son Denis who is buried in Queens, New York.
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