From Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation by John O'Hart
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THE family of O'Cadhla ("cadhla:" Irish, fair, beautiful, anglicised O'Cawley, MacCawley, and Cawley), derives its name and descent from Cadhla, a descendant of Conmac, son of Fergus Mór, who (see page 301) is No. 64 on the "Line of Ir." The O'Cawleys were Chiefs of Conmacne-Mara (now Connemara), in West Galway. They were a peaceful tribe, and took little or no part in any of the many disturbances which agitated Ireland since the Anglo-Norman invasion.
1. Cadhla, a quo O'Cadhla, anglicised O'Cawley.
2. Donoch Caoch: his son.
3. Donal: his son.
4. Iomhar Fionn: his son.
5. Gilla-na-Neev: his son.
6. Gilla-na-Neev (2): his son.
7. Doncha Mór: his son.
8. Doncha Oge: his son.
9. Aodh Dubh: his son.
10. Doncha (3): his son.
11. Cathal: his son.
12. John (or Owen): his son.
13. Muireadhagh: his son.
14. Muircheartagh: his son.
15. Flan: his son.
16. Muircheartagh (2): his son.
17. Flan (2): his son.
18. Malachy: his son.
19. Patrick: his son.
20. Melaghlin: his son.
21. Aodh (2): his son.
22. Muircheartagh (3): his son.
23. Muircheartagh Oge (4): his son.
24. Malachy O'Cawley: his son. This Malachy was a native of West Conacht; and in 1630 was appointed to the Archbishopric of Tuam-da-ghualan (now Tuam). This distinguished prelate was the last of a long line of illustrious chiefs, and the rightful owner of an extensive estate in the barony of Ballinahinch, in the county of Galway. He commanded a detachment of the Irish army in 1645, and was slain [1] near Sligo in that year, in an unsuccessful attempt to take the town from the Parliamentarians, who held it under Sir Charles Coote.
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NOTES
[1] Slain: Of the "Cawley" tribe was the man by whom Gerald Fitzjames Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond, was in 1583 mortally wounded in Gleanaguanta. That man was, as Cox states, a native Irishman, who had been bred by the English, and was serving as a kern under the English commandant of Castlemaigne, in 1583. On the 11th November, Fitzgerald was slain, his head sent to London, and his body hung in chains in Cork.--(See Ormonde's Letter, 15th Nov., 1583, in the State Paper Office.)