Donough

It is said that all the Irish churches which begin with the name Donough were founded by the saint, the foundation being always marked out by him on a Sunday, for which Domhnach is the Gaedhilic term.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

I had wished to sit up with O'Connor, who had matters to arrange sufficient to employ him until the hour appointed for M'Donough's visit; but he would not hear of it, and I was forced, though sorely against my will, to leave him without a companion.

The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

On one hand he was worried by Patten, who was dying, and who wanted to go back to the Darling for advice; on the other, by M'Donough's continually pouring into his ears the assurance that Burke would not return that way, but had doubtless by this time made for some port on the Queensland coast, and had returned to Melbourne by sea; and that if they stayed at the depôt they would all get scurvy, and in the end die of starvation.

The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

She sings of one yellow-haired Donough in stanzas that were suggested to me by some old Gaelic folk-song:83

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

O fair-haired Donough, it is not the gallows was fit for you;

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

And fair-haired Donough, my brother, is stretched out.

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

Our fair-haired Donough, and he after being condemned;

The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish 1919

The reference may be to Conor O'Loughlin, who was king of Oriel till he was murdered in May 1136 (p. 40, note 2), or his successor, Donough

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899

O'Brien and MacCarthy, and apparently with assistance also from Donough

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899

It appears from the last sentence of the passage there quoted that Donough

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899