Savage, Sir Roland (Raibhlinn, Janico) (d. 1519), lord of Lecale and seneschal, was a younger son of Robert Savage the Younger, lord of Lecale and head of a largely gaelicised family that competed with the neighbouring Whites of the Dufferin, for the most part successfully, for the nominal seneschalship of Ulster. Nothing is known of his mother. His father Robert was killed (1468) by the O'Neills at Cave Hill, Co. Antrim, and the eldest son, Patrick, succeeded as lord and seneschal. In the following year Patrick was captured by Patrick White, who assumed the title of lord of Lecale, aided by Énrí Ó Néill. A year later, Roland led a night raid into Lecale in which he captured White and secured the release of his brother, who was reinstated as seneschal. In 1481, however, Patrick was again captured, by Conn Ó Néill (qv), 6th lord of Clann Aodha Buidhe, and blinded. Since he was deemed unfit to discharge the office of seneschal, Roland was appointed in his place by a patent dated 2 August 1482.
The indications are that he took the duties of his position more seriously than many of his predecessors: sometime between 1482 and 1494 the Hiberno-Normans of Ulster testified to his effective defence of them against the Gaelic Irish of the region. On 2 August 1492 he received a new patent for the seneschalship, by which time he had been knighted. A formidable new threat to his position was posed when successive earls of Kildare acquired interests in the area, and Roland appears to have lost the lordship of Lecale to Gerald (‘Gearoid Óg’) FitzGerald (qv), 9th earl of Kildare, in 1515. He died shortly afterwards, in 1519, leaving six offspring – Raymond, surnamed ‘Ferdorough’, who succeeded; James, surnamed ‘MacJanico’; Patrick Bui; Robert; a son who was killed in 1538; and a daughter, who married a MacQuillan.