For nearly four hundred years after the fall of the Gaelic order, no O'Dubhda Taoiseach walked the old ground as chief, and no clan gathering met in the O'Dubhda homeland. The last inauguration at Carn Amhalghaidh was in 1595. Afterwards, the family scattered — to Mayo, to Dublin, to America, to Australia, to every port that would take a ship.

The thread never quite broke. Gertie Mac Hale's husband, Tomás Mac Héil, gathered the scattered stories in his 1971 book Stories from O'Dowda's Country — a small volume, published in Enniscrone, that reminded the clan that it still had a country. Nineteen years later, Gertie and a handful of neighbours decided the book was not enough. The O'Dubhda needed to come home in person.

In July 1990 the first Clan Rally opened in Enniscrone. A rowan sapling was planted at the castle — a deliberate echo of the Rowan of Dubhros, the sacred tree at the heart of the oldest clan legend. That small ceremony began the tradition this page records: every two or three years since, O'Dubhdas have gathered in the family's ancient territory to walk the sites, hear the history, and — from 2000 onwards — to inaugurate a new chieftain on the old inauguration mound.

What follows is the timeline of those gatherings, in order.