Donlevy

Donlevy, Dunlevy, Donleavy and Dunleavy are Irish surnames derived from the Gaelic 'son/descendant of Donn Sléibhe'; a given name meaning 'Donn of the mountain', i.e. 'dark mountain'. The MacDonlevys were the hereditary rulers of Dál Fiatach and styled as the Kings of Ulaid, i.e. rulers of (east) Ulster, in present-day County Down.

Donlevy, Dunlevy, Donleavy and Dunleavy are Irish surnames derived from the Gaelic 'son/descendant of Donn Sléibhe'; a given name meaning 'Donn of the mountain', i.e. 'dark mountain'. The MacDonlevys were the hereditary rulers of Dál Fiatach and styled as the Kings of Ulaid, i.e. rulers of (east) Ulster, in present-day County Down.

Notable people

Donlevy

Andrew Donlevy (born 1694¹), Irish Roman Catholic priest Brian Donlevy (1889–1972), American actor Frank Donlevy (1932–1982), Scottish footballer Jim Donlevy (1937–2019), Canadian football coach

Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy (1926–2017), American writer Lia Donleavy (born 2007¹), Canadian Dancer

Dunleavy

Chris Dunleavy (born 1949), English footballer Dan Dunleavy (born 1965), Canadian sportscaster Jack Dunleavy (1879–1944), American baseball player John Dunleavy (born 1991), Irish footballer Mary Dunleavy (born 1966), American opera singer Mike Dunleavy Sr. (born 1954¹), American basketball player and coach Mike Dunleavy Jr. (born 1980¹), older son, player Baker Dunleavy (born 1982), younger son, coach Mike J. Dunleavy (born 1961¹), American politician Patrick Dunleavy (born 1952), British political scientist Philip Dunleavy (1915–1996), Welsh politician Richard Dunleavy (born 1933), American naval officer Rosemary Dunleavy, American ballerina Steve Dunleavy (1938–2019), Australian journalist

Dunlevy

Katie-George Dunlevy (born 1981), English-born para-cyclist Mairéad Dunlevy (1941–2008), Irish museum curator and costume expert Mike Dunlevy (born c. 1965), American college football coach Pearl Dunlevy (1909–2002), Irish physician and epidemiologist

Mac Duinnshléibhe

Cormac Mac Duinnshléibhe, fifteenth-century Irish physician and scribe Suibhne mac Duinnshléibhe, thirteenth-century Scottish magnate

Ó Duinnshléibhe

Donnchadh mac Eoghan Ó Duinnshléibhe, Irish physician, d. 1528 Muiris mac Donnchadh Ulltach Ó Duinnshléibhe, Irish cleric, fl. 1602–1630s Muiris mac Seaán Ulltach Ó Duinnshléibhe, Irish cleric, fl. 1602–1630s

List of Mac Duinn Sléibe kings of Ulaid

Donn Sléibe mac Eochada 1081–1091, the eponymous ancestor of the Mac Duinn Sléibe dynasty. Donnchad mac Duinn Sléibe 1091–1095 Eochaid mac Duinn Sléibe 1095–1099 Donnchad mac Duinn Sléibe 1099–1099 Eochaid mac Duinn Sléibe 1099–1108 Donnchad mac Duinn Sléibe 1108–1113 Áed mac Duinn Sléibe 1113–1127 Cú Ulad mac Conchobair Chisenaig Mac Duinn Sléibe 1131–1157 Áed mac Con Ulad Mac Duinn Sléibe 1157–1158 Eochaid mac Con Ulad Mac Duinn Sléibe 1158–1166 Magnus mac Con Ulad Mac Duinn Sléibe 1166–1171 Donn Sléibe mac Con Ulad Mac Duinn Sléibe 1171–1172 Ruaidrí mac Con Ulad Mac Duinn Sléibe 1172–1201 Cu-Ulahd Mac Duinn Sléibe (fl. c. 1178)

List of physicians

Muiris MacDonlevy (died 1395¹) is the first member entered in the Irish Annals where they are listed as ollahm lieghis chenel Conaill, the physician to the Cenel Conaill, the ruling dynasty of Tír Conaill. By his agnomens Paul Ultach or Paul the Ulidian, Muiris's father is also mentioned at this 1395 A.D. entry to be a physician who flourished both before and after Muiris. Cormac MacDonlevy (fl. c. 1460) was an influential medieval Irish physician and medical scholar, who advanced Irish medieval medical practice by, for the first time, translating seminal continental European medical texts from Latin to the vernacular. His translations provided the then-exclusively Gaelic language-speaking majority of Irish physicians with their first reference access to these texts. Murtough Ultaigh Donlevy is recorded as being a physician under an entry for 1497. Donnell Ultaigh Donlevy, the son of an unnamed Ultaigh "ollav" to the O’Donnell in Tir Chonaill, is recorded as having been slain in the year 1567. Donnchadh mac Eoghan Ó Duinnshléibhe (Donnchadh MacDonlevy, died 1527¹) is recorded as a physician. Owen Ultach (died 1586¹) was the son of Donnchadh. Considered throughout Ireland and much of Europe as the finest physician of his time, with his skills not only recounted by the Irish Annals and at the Dictionary of National Biography but also by Stanihurst. "Dyonisius Ultanus", the son of an Irish doctor, is referenced by Tyrconnell-born physician Niall Ó Glacáin as a patient he treated in Valencia. The Annals note further that the branch of the MacDonlevy, who had been the physicians, still existed near Kilmacrenan, County Donegal in the early 17th century.

See also

McNulty Irish clans

References

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