Connell Coat of Arms & Family Crest - Symbols, Bearers, History

Connell “Family Crest” or Coat of Arms - O'Connell, McConnell Family History & Surname
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1) Per fess argent and vert a stag trippant proper between three trefoils slipped counterchanged.
O’Connell of Ballyhean Lodge, co. Clare - descended from John O’Connell Esq. of Greenagh (1778-1853), brother of Daniel O’Connell Esq. of Derrynane Abbey, Member of Parliament known as “The Liberator” sons of Morgan O’Connell (1739-1809), cousins of Maurice Charles Philip O'Connell (1768-1848), lieutenant colonel who served in France, Surinam, Granada, and Dominica, moved to Sydney, Australia, lived at Tarmons, Woolloomooloo
The family descended from Geoffrey O’Connell (c. 1569-1639) of Ballycarbery Castle, High Sheriff, son of Maurice O’Connell (1544-1607), son of Richard O’Connell, son of Morgan O’Connell, son of Hugh O’Connell, Chief, a descendant of Hugh O’Connell (fl. 1337), “lord and chief of the clan”
O’Connell of Lake View, co. Kerry - The O'Connell Baronetcy of Lakeview in Killarney in the County of Kerry and of Ballybeggan in Tralee in the County of Kerry is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom created in 1869 for Sir James O'Connell, son of Morgan O'Connell, a general store proprietor
2) Connell of Ashtown, co. Dublin - granted 1666 to John Connell Esq. (d. 1680, Seneschal to the Duke of Ormonde, owned Phoenix Park, son of Geoffrey O’Connell (1659-1639) - Per fess argent and vert a stag trippant proper between three trefoils slipped counterchanged. Crest-A stag’s head erased argent charged on the neck with a trefoil slipped vert.
3) Connell of Castle Connell, co. Limerick - confirmed in 1755, to James O’Connell of Bristol, then London, then Brussels (d. 1808), son of Michael O’Connell, of London, and grandson of Hugh O’Connell, Captain of Horse to King James II - Same Arms. Crest-A stag’s head erased argent charged with a trefoil vert. Motto: Ciall agus neart.
4) Connell of Kingdom of Desmond, Irelanddescended from Cineal Connaill, a descendant of Faolgursa - Argent a chevron gules between two spurs in chief, and a battle-axe in base azure shaft or. Crest-A bee erect proper. Motto-Non sibi.
5) O’Connell of Ireland - confirmed 1816 to a Scotch family - Argent a lion rampant sable holding in the dexter paw a trefoil slipped vert, on a chief azure three mullets or. Crest-A buck statant proper.
One possibility: Sir John Connell (1765-1831), lawyer and judge, one of at least five sons of Arthur Connell (1717-1775), a West India merchant, son of Rev. Matthew Connell
6) Connell or Connel of Ireland - One possibility: John McConnell Esq. of Belfast, son of James McConnell Esq. and Elizabeth Bogle, had daughter Charlotte who married into the Higginson family in 1825 - Argent a chevron between three spurs azure. Crest-Out of a tower a demi griffin segreant proper.
7) McConnell of Kintyre, co. Argyll, Scotland - One member Alexander MacDonald, lord of Islay and Kintyre (d. 1538) - Quarterly, 1st, az. a lion ramp. ar.; 2nd, or, a dexter hand gules grasping a cross crosslet fitchee azure; 3rd, or, a lymphad sable; 4th, per pale argent and azure a rock gules.
8) McConnell of Carseriggan, co. Wigtown, Scotland and Cressbrook, Australia - granted 1860, descended from James McConnell (1762-1831), owner of mills in Manchester, cotton spinner, had son David Cannon McConnel (1818-1855), a farmer and grazier who moved to Sydney, Australia where he set up a homestead known as Cressbrook, and had sons James Henry McConnell (1850-1914), David Rose McConnell (1854-1940), Eric Walter McConnel (1863-1926), and Edward John McConnell (1864-1930) - Or, in dexter chief a dexter arm couped in fess gules the hand holding a cross crosslet fitchte erect sable in sinister chief a galley, her sails furled and oars in action of the third, flagged of the second, and in base a lion rampant also of the second, on a chief of the second three trefoils slipped of the first. Crest: A stag's head erased gules charged in the neck with a trefoil slipped or. Motto: Victor in arduis.

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9) O’Connell - created a Baron in Austria on January 22nd, 1864 - De sinople, au lion d'or, à la bordure du même. Casque couronné. Cimier: un bras, armé au naturel, liséré d'or, la main de carnation brandissant une épée d'argent, garnie d'or. Tenants: deux hommes d'armes, au naturel, la main libre appuyée sur la hanche. Devise: SMOMACT ASRR MOPDACT (Courage et générosité).
Morgan O’Connell (1804-1885), soldier in the Irish American legion and the Austrian Army
Maurice O’Connell (1740-1831), army officer in the Austrian service, Baron O’Connell in the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, son of Maurice O’Connell
Francis Michael O’Connell (born 1847), served in the French Army during the Franco Prussia War, was created Count in the Papal States in 1876 by the Pope for his services to the clergy, son of Francis O’Connell
10) Connell of Kilkenny - granted in 1685 to Richard Connell Esq., mayor of Kilkenny, son of William Connell Esq., also mayor of Kilkenny - Argent on a chief sable two book registers of the first. Crest: A dexter hand proper, vested sable, holding a rod argent. Motto: Servus servorum Dei.
11) McConnell - Crest: On a dexter hand apaumee in fess a bird perched.
One possibility: Frederick Vavasour McConnell (1868-1914), English traveler and collector who authored the book “The birds of British Guiana”