Edmond MacHugo (alias MacCoug, MacCook, Cook), Irish

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, alive 1559. MacHugo is notable as one of the first certain bearers of the surname MacHugo, and the only attested Chief of the Name. The family being a

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of the

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family of

Clanricarde Clanricarde ( ), also known as Mac William Uachtar (Upper Mac William) or the Galway Burkes, were a fully Gaelicised branch of the Hiberno-Norman House of Burgh who were important landowners in Ireland from the 13th to the 20th centuries. Terr ...

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. The family took their name from a Hugh or Hugo Burke, alive sometime in the late 14th century. Edmond was listed as "Chief of his Nation" in a

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dated 1570, and resided at

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castle, now destroyed. His son Geoffrey MacHugo (''Sheron MacCoug of Killyndyma'', fl. 1570 - 6 October 1605) had issue Ulick, James, Edmond Reagh and William, from whom are descended many bearers of the name MacHugo. Some bearers of the name are buried in the ruined

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abbey of Loughrea.

References

* ''The Book Of Dead Names'', Adrian James Martyn, Journal of the

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, Winter 2004/05 * ''Killeenadeema Aille: History and Heritage/Stair agus Oidhreacht'', ed. Pat O'Looney, Killeenadeema Historical and Heritage Society, 2009. {{DEFAULTSORT:MacHugo, Edmond People from County Galway