![]() ![]() The youngest of at least six acknowledged male children, the infant Shane possessed of himself little diplomatic leverage, while his delivery into the hands of an unquestioningly loyal family helped diffuse any tensions which his arrival may have provoked among his siblings. Conn Bacach's decision to foster Shane within his own lordship rather than with neighbouring powers is perhaps an indication of Shane's relative unimportance. ![]() Shane was left motherless shortly after his birth and fostered out to the O'Donnellys, a substantial client family of, and hereditary officeholders under, the O'Neills. ( c.1530–1567), chief of the O'Neills of Tír Eoghain (1558–67), was the youngest son of the reigning O'Neill, Conn Bacach (qv), and his wife Sorcha, daughter of Hugh Oge O'Neill, chief of the Clandeboye O'Neills. ![]()
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