O’Donovans at The University of Toulouse, France: Richard Ó Donovan, LL.D., MP for Baltimore, Died 1694. In 1754 Timothy O’Donovan was a student at the University of Toulouse where on the 15th July of that year he vanquished the most famous swordsman in France. He married Eleanor McCarthy, daughter of Florence McCarthy of Gortnascreena by Jane O’Driscoll daughter of O’Driscoll of Creagh. Grandfather of Timothy O’Donovan, Magistrate, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus.
Ronayne Genealogy:
O’Donovan, Durrus/KIlcrohane:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq_IayaxdUyWZWbpDf6LWlLNg7o-3tNJiqPGYIALy80/edit
Catherine Ronayne ; married Richard Donovan, Doctor of Laws (University of Toulouse); M.P. for Baltimore; ob. 1694.
Cusack also gives the pedigree of The Ó Donovan, showing the marriage of Catherine Ronayne of Ronayne’s Court— aunt of Mary Ronayne, wife of Morgan Ó Donovan, ancestor of the Ó Donovans of Montpellier—and Richard Ó Donovan, LL.D., MP for Baltimore.
In 1754 Timothy O’Donovan was a student at the University of Toulouse where on the 15th July of that year he vanquished the most famous swordsman in France. He married Eleanor McCarthy, daughter of Florence McCarthy of Gortnascreena by Jane O’Driscoll daughter of O’Driscoll of Creagh. They had two sons, his heir Richard and Daniel a Lieutenant in the English Service who may have been the person who in March 1835.
March 1835, died lately at Bantry D.D.O’Donovan,. He was on half pay from the 27th Regiment and was probably the last survivor of the Irish Brigade. After the French Revolution the Irish Brigade officers were permitted to join the British Army
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