Historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim

248 THE MACDONNELLS OF ANTRIM.
William. Randal, who died in 1676, was succeeded by his eldest son, Christopher, who took the
side of James II. in the revolutionary struggle, and thereby wholly lost the family estate of Slane.
On his death in 1728, without male issue, William Fleming, son of Thomas of Gillanstown, and
grandson of lady Anne Macdonnell, assumed the title of twenty-third baron of Slane. This William
lord Slane, resided for many years at Anticor, in the parish of Finvoy, and barony of Kilconway,
on a property he had obtained from the Antrim family. He was interred in the family vault at
Bunnamairge. Lord William left one son, Christopher, who was known as twenty-fourth lord Slane,
and who died without lawful issue in 1772. His sister, Anne Fleming, married Dr. Alexander
M'Neill of Drumaduin, near Ballycastle, in the county of Antrim, and left three children, the eldest
of whom, William M'Neill, a professor in Trinity College, Dublin, married Mary M'Dowell. Of
this marriage, there was issue only one daughter, Rose Ann, who married Anthony Newell, and left
two daughters, namely, Jane, who married John Feilden, of Wilton park, Lancashire, and died
without issue; and Sophia, the wife of Thomas Mitchell, esqr., now of The Lawn, south Lambeth
Road, London. Family MS.
The earl of Antrim's second daughter, lady Mary, married, first, Lucas second viscount Dillon,
and secondly, Oliver Plunket, the sixth lord Louth. Her first marriage took place in 1625, when
the bridegroom was only fifteen years of age, and the bride probably younger. He died in 1629,
leaving one son, an infant, who soon afterwards followed his father to the grave. This lady's second
husband, baron Louth, became a well-known insurgent leader in the rebellion of 1641. His estate
was confiscated, and he died in 1679. His son received a grant under the act of settlement. See
Lodge, edited by Archdall, vol. iv., p. 185 ; vol. vi., pp. 170, 171.
Lady Sarah Macdonnell was thrice married, her husbands being all members of native Irish
families. Her first husband was sir Neall Oge O'Neill of Killelagh, or lower Killead, in the county
of Antrim. This gentleman was son of Neal, son of Hugh, son of Felim, surnamed Baccach, who
died in 1553. Neal Oge O'Neill, and his brother Hugh were left orphans by the death of their
father, who was slain fighting on the side of the English in Tyrone's rebellion. The following docu-
ment, signed by these brothers, when they came of age, explains itself, and was written about the
time of Neal Oge's marriage with the lady Sarah Macdonnell : — " Wee doe acknowledge and con-
fess that wee have receaved at the hands of the maior, sheriffs, and corporacon of the Towne of,
Knockfargus, the Patent graunted unto us by his Majestie for houldinge of our lands of Killelagh
and Killmakevitt, being formarlie comitted by direcion from the late Lord Deputye, unto the trust
and custodye of the maior and corporacon of Knockfargus, aforesayde, until such tyme as wee should
come to perfecte adge and be capable of reason and understandinge ; as wytness our hands this iSth
of Aprile, 161 6. " Neall O'Neall,
" Witnesses, " Hugh O'Neall." (114)
"Hercules Langforde,
"Thomas Witter,
"Thomas Tracy."
(114) O'Neall. — This grant was made to these brothers Killmachevitt, and Hugh the tuogli of Killelagh. The
on the 26th of May, 1607, pursuant to privy seal of the grant defines the territory of Kilmakevilt as bounded on
4th July, x6o6. Neal Oge got the tuogh or district of the west by Lough Eaugh, otherwise Lough Sydney ; and