Facts and traditions collected for a family record

ARMS OF O'CONNELL AND O'DONNELL. 101
a stag's head erased argent, charged with a trefoil vert. Supporters — two stags
proper. Motto — (in Irish) ' Cia'll agos Neart ;' (in English) ' Power used with
judgment.' "
O'Connell (Ireland). — " Argent, a lion rampant, sable ; in the dexter forepaw a
trefoil slipped vert ; on a chief azure, three mullets or. Crest — a stag statant
proper."
Burke's "Landed Gentry," 1858 :—
" Daniel O'Connell, Derrynane Abbey, co. Kerry. From the district of Upper
and Lower Connelloe, co. Limerick. Removed thence to Iveragh, co. Kerry, and
remained there for a considerable period, until the rebellion of 1641. Transplanted
thence to the county of Clare."
These are the arms which my father, as has been before stated, pro-
visionally adopted, and which he considered, in later years, that he
ought to use, as he was induced to believe that he was of similar origin
to the O'G'onnells. But for this supposition there does not now appear
to be any foundation.
The arms of O'Donnell are as different as those of O'Connell from
those which are the true source of the armorial bearings of the
M'Connells. They are as follows, taken from Burke's " General
Armoury," 1851 : — ■
O'Donell. Newport, couuty Mayo. Baronet. — " Gules, issuing from the dexter
side of the shield, a cubit sinister arm vested azure cuffed or, the hand proper
grasping a cross fitchie of the third. Crest — two armed arms, embowed proper,
crossing each other in saltire ; the hand on the dexter side holding a heart ; that
on the sinister a scimitar, all proper. Motto — ' In hoc signo vinces.' "
" Armorial ensigns of M'Connald, as they appear recorded in one of the ordi-
naries now remaining in the office of Ulster-King-at-Arms of all Ireland, January 1,
1816. No memorandum of time, or to whom granted. A Scotch family.
Argent, a lion rampant, gules ; on a chief gules, three mullets or."
This is on a memorandum in possession of James M'Connel, Esq.,
Manchester. Also the following : —
" Connel. Bears argent, a cheveron gules between two spurs in chief sable.