MacSweeney Clan History

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Please check out my other project where we invite guests and talk about history in depth
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[@normsweeney3116]

Thank you for sharing this!! Mac / Mc Sweeney clan representing!

[@securityconsultant9036]

Absolutely great to see the family on this channel.

[@polmcsuibhne7657]

as a Sweeney ...how do i get my land back........

[@imperialinquisitormaximusv3645]

You fight the english and the scots.
an the irish.

[@polmcsuibhne7657]

@@imperialinquisitormaximusv3645 o you have met my family ....

[@Gurthygrows]

Very awesome information! I just found out the the McSweeney's are my ancestors.

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Thank you very much, they were involved in so many important parts of history they appear in most of my video at one stage or another.

[@liammcsweeney2616]

My great grand parents from my grandfather side are Sweeney am proud to be part of the Sweeney bloodline

[@jorgeh.r9879]

Your channel is excellent. Very well explained, it's difficult to find people that talk about this. Top quality 💯

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Thank you!! Its one of the reasons i started this, i got frustrated looking for videos about families outside of the royal familes of europe.

[@therapparee1745]

Very hard to find information on this topic in this depth 👍👌

[@bremnersghost948]

Castle Sween is one of my favourite Campgrounds, The Sunsets are 1st class and oddly there seems to be fewer Midges there than most places on the West Coast.

[@cristiordebuitleir1443]

I intend to cover all clans in ireland and scotland"
fair play to you.
Worthy of doctarate are the maps and knowlge shown in these informed video of historical records.

[@squashandawe6928]

Absolutely brilliant. You’ve done ✅ the impossible and made a very complicated history clear and understandable. I’ll share with my family.Thank you!

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Thank you very much, i really do appreciate the comment and support.

[@gigmcsweeney8566]

Having spent 18 months researching the history of my paternal ancestry, I am fairly certain that the Anrothan story was false, and was most likely created to help smoothe their way into medieval Tyr Connail. The name Suibne is not the name of our eponymous ancestor, but was a Hibernianised version of Sween, or Swein, who was the son of Kenneth Haraldsson and a king of the Galgaidhel (foreigner-Gaels), who ruled Man and the southern Hebrides (Sudreys). He died in 1034 AD. There are several other actual inaccuracies in this video, including the origins of the McQueens (in parts of the Highlands the letter S is apsirated after the Mac prefix, so MacSween beomes Mac'ween - there was no eponymous ancestor named Queen); the extent of MacSween lands, and their relationship with the MacDougals (and MacDonalds), who changed sides after John Comyn was murdered by the Bruce, are also inaccurate. Of all the families of West Highland or Hebridean origins who went to Ireland, only the MacSween were able to conquer their own territories and choose their own alliances; they became fosterers, in-laws, and protectors of the O'Donnells, who in turn inaugurated each new McSweeney chieftain of Fanad. The English recognised the MacSweeneys as first amongst the lords in Ireland, even in the parts of Ireland they weren't lords, 'such is the want of their friendship or protection.' In one way the MacSweeneys are fairly unique in British and Irish history, inasmuch as they were a military dynasty of the nobily who continued in their profession of arms for many centuries, having taken part in almost all of the most important battles to have occured in Britain and Ireland since Clontarf in 1014, including numerous battles during the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, and in the Napoleonic Wars, when they fought on boths sides, and may have even faced each other in battle. They had been vassal lords of Edward I and were opposed to Robert the Bruce, who they saw as a usurper, and built the first castles in Scotland, employing defensive innovations that didn't appear in France for another century - only Kenilworth Castle has crosslet loopholes earlier than Skipness. Members of the family were awarded lands in England during the 15th Century, and several families of the nobility claim their decsent from the MacSweeneys, including the Earls of Manchester, the Montaguts, and the Dukes of Buccleuch.

[@Clans_Dynasties]

I think you may have misheard the video, i never actually state their descent at any point, i merely gave the sources of claimed descent and who wrote it, i would love you to point out any the other inaccuracies you spotted as i am always willing to learn and will correct them where i can.

[@dibdabdub64]

That is fascinating to read. I'm a mcsweeney. Are you in Ireland or English?
You seem to be showing maybe an English side to the surname. My research is very different to yours.

[@jacobqueen4411]

Im from America my ancestor John MacQueen was a covenanter brought over in 1685 he was a MacQueen of Corrybrough whom the story goes that the MacQueens of Corrybrough (chattan confederation) were descent of a Roderick Dubh Revan Milmor vic Isaak MacSweyn. Its claimed he went with Moira MacDonald when she married Malcolm Beg Mackintosh the 10th chief of that ilk. His last name being wrote as MacSweyn as him being a sept of the MacDonalds of ClanRanald i would think he was descent of the Sweens of castle Sween just south of there. I also think the MacQueens of Skye came from the same people. And of course some of these bloodlines ended up with norse ydna instead of celtic but my dna is of the original celtic i am R1b M269 my closest match is what they call Irish type II

[@cooldaddy2877]

Then you would have Norse dna. Time for a rethink by you as Sweeney dna matches fairly well with Uí Néill clans. Sorry. Further, the Sweeneys didnt need to make up anything as by the time the book was written the clan had been established in Donegal for two hundred years!!!

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@dibdabdub64 The Sweeneys are 100% Irish by history, manuscripts and dna.

[@PatsPurposefulPutzing]

thanks for this. visited Ireland for the first time 2019 (co Clare) where I met some fellow Sweeney's

[@poguemathoin7374]

Thanks for taking time out of your life to do this (again) Cheers brother 🇮🇪

[@Clans_Dynasties]

You are very welcome, i just felt it deserved to be done better, Thank you for watching it (again).

[@poguemathoin7374]

@@Clans_Dynasties Mo Chara, my friend was wondering if you could do a video on the Frazer's please?

[@Clans_Dynasties]

I have them on my list of clans to do, although im thinking i may do two separate videos so that the Lovat branch have their own, which branch is your friend from?

[@poguemathoin7374]

@@Clans_Dynasties he is from the Lovat branch. 😊

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Il put them before the other fraser video for your friend, it will be a little while yet but hopfully as this channel continues to grow it will allow me more time to commit to it and less at my current job, meaning faster video releases.

[@frankmorris2603]

Super informative channel.
So much of my 2 family irish lineage highlighted. Kelly's and O'Sullivans.

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Thank you very much !!

[@MacCionnaith]

I believe Daniel O'Donnell is still high chief of Donegal

[@cooldaddy2877]

Nah.

[@saor4340]

Great Video , keep up the great work , Looking forward to hopefully seeing a history of Clann Ruaidhrí/McCrory

[@Clans_Dynasties]

You will indeed, i intend to cover every Scottish and Irish Clan/families histories.

[@RoyGJones]

Cool ,Ive got em in my family tree thru my grandma's O'Sullivan mor lines

[@Sevenlllllllegs]

Ulster Sweeney here! Did a DNA test that says I’m 100% Celtic, linked to islands in Scotland and Donegal. Blows my mind that in all of my lineage, my ancestors never married a non-celt. With centuries of invasions and colonisation, we just kept mating within our little native circles 😭🤣

[@harleymcclaren1739]

I am Sweeney by birth. And trying to learn as much of my history as I can.

[@mikie123]

I believe the oldest known grave on Skellig Michael is of a monk called "MacSuibhne" who died pre 10th century. My paternal grandmother was a Sweeney from the Connacht (Mayo) branch

[@brucecollins641]

@mikie123......sweeneys a scottish gallowglass clan coming from the norse-scots svein who literally transplanted to ireland in the 12thcentury. type in......sweeney name meaning ,family history,family crest and coat of arms. suibhne o'neil ...a scottish chieftain. o'neil is also scottish which jist means of the clan neil. the wee apostrophe after the o replaces the f

[@ruairimartin4240]

Brilliant video, I have a little bit of sweeney blood in me but you wouldn't cover a hyberno-norman family would you?
Gallagher or Duffy though?

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Thank you!! I have covered the Butlers, I do intend to cover all the families of Scotland and Ireland, im also related to the Duffys of county Down so they will definitely make an appearance.

[@ruairimartin4240]

@@Clans_Dynasties all I know about Martin is that it's norman in origin and came to Ireland in 1169, would love to know more if there is any more to know that it

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Not necessarily, As with all Names there tends to be multiple origins, There are native Gaelic branches of the name especially but not limited to Tyrone and Fermanagh, Gilmartin, Kilmartin, O'Martin and MacMartain exist and many branches were known to have anglicised their names for various reasons, It is also a popular surname in Scotland and England so there are no doubt Imports to the name too.

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@ruairimartin4240 Not really, you would need to find a location in Ireland before making assumptions.

[@Peachy08]

My grt grt grandmother was a Sweeney.

[@uiimairgrandchildrenofivar5894]

The Campbell genealogy says that Sween the Reds daughter had an illegitimate child with Colin Mael Maith named Taius Coir who eventually started Clan McTavish. Another illegitimate child of Maith was Iver who started Clan MacIver.

[@dubhainoceanntabhail5262]

very interesting and well researched.

[@thomasmcsweeney1254]

history or heritage what binds a person and makes them who they are is in their blood like the hairs on the back of your neck if you have spirit that stands some emotion that stirs the soul but just who are we stabbed in the back still standing out in public searching for truth who knows what the outcome would be if unity came about for all hay!!!

[@liammcsweeney2616]

My family bloodline.

[@securityconsultant9036]

Very amazing were still out here!

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

My father was from Donegal, he was born in the 20s, and his grandfather was forced to change the spelling from Suibhne, but kept it on the sign for their shop on their ancestral land, on/near
mountainous land near Swillybrin.

[@securityconsultant9036]

Yeah we were forced to change the spelling also

[@TheDickPuller]

Great video thanks for sharing👍

[@odranodonnell8539]

Great content lad, love it!

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Thank you, i appreciate it.

[@multymedia5320]

good vid, well researched

[@cathanmccann1769]

Can you please do the McCanns our Mac Canna's next

[@Clans_Dynasties]

I cant do them next as im already working through the next 3 videos i have planned, I promise i will get to them, i have alot of love for the McCanns they are from the same area as my family.

[@cathanmccann1769]

@@Clans_Dynasties thank you so much

[@cooldaddy2877]

Its Mac Cana actually.

[@dentonstalesofthevikingage8945]

Very interesting. Enjoyed it.

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Thank you Denton, i appreciate the comment.

[@dentonstalesofthevikingage8945]

@@Clans_Dynasties You deserve it.

[@jkmcgregor7797]

Great video are you gonna do a video of O Flaherty clan

[@jamessheehy2752]

Do one on the McSheehys too
they were massive in the olden Eras.
McSweeney McSHeehy Mccabe and others died in the hundreds fighting in Munster together

[@Clans_Dynasties]

I will, i intend to cover all Irish and Scottish clans/Families, They are mentioned in the Gallowglass clans video though.

[@cqk3578]

They fought each other at the battle of Lixnaw in 1568.

[@hopper1aoa15]

Any chance you could do the Twomey and mc Grath Clan history sometime in the future i would really appreciate it if you could,just a suggestion....thanks,I love your channel by the way...

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Thank you so much!! Please keep the suggestions coming, I want to cover every Clan/Family in ireland, Scotland and possibly some special mentions around the worl, so keep asking and i will try to get them done as quick as i can.

[@hopper1aoa15]

I think the mc Grath Clan are one of the big Irish Clans if I'm not mistaken they were high up in the o Brien of thomond Clan court in munster....I think the mc Grath's were bards,story tellers and recorders of the history of the o Brien's ....

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Yes one family of the McGrath family is from Thomond, Although there are multiple McGrath families including a famous Ulster family, thats the problem with patrynomic names you always find multiple families and sometimes the families history overlap even when there is no known blood relationship. When i come across 2 'big' families with the same name and no known relationship i have to try and either find a link or decide to put them in the same video or separate videos which adds to the time it take to make them.

[@cooldaddy2877]

Google McGrath Clan and you will find the official clan. The leader is Seán McGrath and he will help with any questions.

[@sweenes1311]

So do the sweeneys have norse blood and were they descended from the ui imair ivar the boneless? Alot of sources say they are mixed norse and gealic blood and suibhne and his ancestors were norse.

[@Clans_Dynasties]

I would say the possibility of having maternal norse connections is 99.99%, The clans personal history states they or parernal Irish descent, although how much of that is true only DNA testing will prove this in time, The Ui Imair are decended from someone called Ivar but there is no conclusive evidence this is Ivar the Boneless again we may have to wait for archleogical finds and DNA testing to give us some answers, much like the recent ones done on Somerled (MacDougall, MacDonald proginator) who was often sometimes thought to be of Irish descent but testing has shown most likely Norwegian father, Irish Mother.

[@sweenes1311]

@@Clans_Dynasties thanks for the quick reply bro. As a sweeney I find it very interesting. I always thought my surname was just irish and was shocked to find out it originated in Scotland let alone the clan being of norse gealic descent and gallowglass. Great vid!

[@amanb8698]

@@Clans_Dynasties Yup that's what I meant earlier. The McDonald's Clan Founder is said trace his line back to its origin which is said to have started from one Norse parent and one Gael parent. Somerled was found to have been born to a Norwegian male and an Irish female. Hiberno-Norse, or Norse Gaels. Ironic that my McDonald side is through my mom, and i'm part Norwegian on my fathers side. Ironically from Southwestern Norway which was an area where people from the Isles were brought into Norway (Women mainly). Full circle lol. So as i've said I do know that it worked reverse too, Norwegian men went to Ireland and Scotland, Irish and Scottish women were brought to Norway and the settlement of Iceland, of the 3 Scandinavian North Germanic nations the Norwegians and the Icelanders especially, have the most Irish and Scottish ties, even DNA wise, as well as with Germans, Dutch, and English, due to the Hanseatic league etc., so they pull more Northwest Europe, and it's evident in looks too, with many very or somewhat Irish/Scottish looking folks showing up often in the Norwegian and Icelandic populations, and maternal Irish DNA. Ironically R1b also predominates in Southwest Norway, and in Norway and Iceland, as a whole as opposed to Denmark and Sweden where I1 predominate. However it developed independently in Norway and is related to the Germanic R1b which is itself related to the Celtic R1b and all, but via the same Bell Beaker Culture as the others, this culture is is said to have started near the Rhine and the Celtic Halstatt Culture and Iberian cultures probably originated from that. However Iceland seems even more influenced as while paternal lines of Norwegian stock, and a majority of maternal lines are of Irish and Scottish stock, from captured women brought there. So the Icelandic people on average are essentially half/50% paternal Norwegian DNA/ and half/50% Irish maternal DNA.

[@securityconsultant9036]

We're one of the few families in the world that can say regardless of spelling were all related some where.

[@cooldaddy2877]

NO. They are 100% Irish by dna.

[@jmcsweeney6519]

Greetings from Cork 🔥🪓👊

[@jamesgannon2136]

Can you cover the McIntosh's

[@Clans_Dynasties]

I will cover them eventually, keep the requests coming though.

[@harrymontgomery5268]

How about a little history on the Montgomery Clan

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Ive had a couple requests for the Montgomery's now, might have to move them further up the list to avoid a riot

[@jodysweeney2747]

You're talking about my family's

[@taylorahern3755]

Amongst the Western European Samurai of that late Medieval-Renaissance Era, 1300-1600!

[@cooldaddy2877]

Their weapons were made by the McGinley clan, their neighbours.

[@logannichols5848]

I notice some of your videos are not viewable. The one I was looking for was the history of the clans being put on the Scottish map.

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Hello Logan, are you referring to my 'Clans of Culloden' video, thats the only video i specifically show locations of multiple clans and a brief history, i have only uploaded 10 videos so far, are you able to see 10?

[@logannichols5848]

@@Clans_Dynasties yes I can see 10 videos. Must be a similar channel.

[@Clans_Dynasties]

if you find it please share a link, it sounds like my kind of video.

[@iangall4223]

Clan Gall ?

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

Where do the deeds of Suibhne Geilt fit historically if at all?

[@Clans_Dynasties]

He is to early and from the wrong area to be a Macsweeney, Although i was thinking of adding the tale of Suibne Geilt since Suibne like most Gaelic names is a patrynomic name, there are no doubt multiple unrelated brances and maybe one is decended from him (if he existed) but i decided to keep the narrative with the main branches of the family which he is most likely not related too.

[@cooldaddy2877]

From a much earlier time and nothing to do with Sweeneys. Suibhne was just a personal name.

[@tigerskid5612]

Hey I was told from my grandfather that the Sweeney name came from the McSweeney clan of Ireland. If so would I be related to the McSweeney clan?

[@Clans_Dynasties]

(Mac) Sweeny, (mac) Swine, (mac) Swiney, (mac) Sween, and many more spellings are all related to the MacSweeny clan i apolgise i normally place the alternative spellings in the videos, i had thought i did, but i may have missed it.

[@securityconsultant9036]

Yup we speak ours swinea

[@cooldaddy2877]

Its all the same. The leader of the SNP in Scotland is a Swinney....another variation of the same name.

[@brucecollins641]

@@cooldaddy2877 type in.....sweeney name meaning,family history, family crest and coat of arms house of names......then.......sweeney name history | coat of arms | the irish rose gifts.....

[@Monarchia_Irlandzka]

O'Byrne clan please!

[@Clans_Dynasties]

They are on the list.

[@Monarchia_Irlandzka]

@@Clans_Dynasties which list?

[@Clans_Dynasties]

My list of clan videos i intend to make, Sorry should have given a little more information.

[@TheJers43]

My mom is a Swiney she always denied any Irish but it looks like we were Irish from the 1500's

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Alot of people unfortunately dont know their entire history, i recently came in contact with an 80 year old 3rd cousin in america through DNA who was adamant her family was from Cork, i had to explain to her that our family had never settled anywhere near cork, we had been in Ulster for at least the last 1000 years.

[@cooldaddy2877]

Swiney is a form of Sweeney....all the same. Irish always.

[@brucecollins641]

@@cooldaddy2877 swinney wich is a form of sweeney which is a form of sween which is a form of svein, a scottish norse clan who were a scottish mercenary clan.

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@brucecollins641 Please do some research. The clan were "formed" in Scotland, yes, but they were of Irish origins and returned to Ireland after they chose the ENGLISH side at Bannockburn. Swinney is indeed a form of Sweeney but IRISH all the same. Some members of the clan stayed behind in Scotland and aspirated the initial 'S' which gives Mac Shuibhne in Gaelic and it was then Anglicised as McQueen. Again, DNA has shown the link.

[@brucecollins641]

@@cooldaddy2877 lol.....they were not on irish origins..wishful thinkin but no irish. .

[@derekcole2086]

Hey I had a question are the O Donnells and the mc Donnells related

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

No the McDonnell's Are a decended of somerlaine King of the iles while the O'Donnell's are a junior branch of clan Connell a branch of the northern uí Neil

[@Clans_Dynasties]

Short answer: No
Long answer: patrynomic names often lead to this issue, Mac Donnell son of Donald or Domhnall and O'Donnell is a decendant of Donald or Domhnall, They are different Donalds, The O'Donnell are decended from Conall Gulban (check out the O'Doherty video as they are related) and the Mc Donnell are of Norse-Gael origins, From clan Donald with the proginator being Somerled......Although both names are interchangeable so there are likely people descended from both these lines bearing the others name......And the fact that there was undoubtedly other Donalds or Domhnalls roaming around the gaelic world having children added to the mix also. It really makes researching these videos interesting thats for sure.

[@odranodonnell8539]

@@mikeoxsmal8022 the Northern Uí Néill was a complete fabrication trying to legitimise and confederate the various tribes of the Cenel Conaill and the Cenel Eoghain through fake genealogies. Only 1/5 of men native to Ulster have the haplogroup marker of Niall Noígíallach.
The Southern Uí Néill were the true Uí Néill.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@@odranodonnell8539 Most members of clans were peasantry who took the clan surname of course not everyone would have the clan marker

[@odranodonnell8539]

@@mikeoxsmal8022 Conal Gulban and Eoghain were NOT sons of Niall Noígíallach. This fake genealogy was added to give the Cenel Chonaill and Cenel Eoghain a relationship with the Southern Uí Néill who were the traditional Kings of Tara.
Both groups of tribes remained isolated and are the native Feni people who lived in the Vennicnii area of Ptolemys map.