Brodar mac Torcaill (1104 – 1 July 1160), also known as Brodar Mac Turcaill, was a late twelfth century

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. He was a member of the

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, a substantial landholding kindred in the kingdom. His death in 1160, at the hands of the Meic Gilla Sechnaill of South

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, is revealed by the thirteenth-century ''

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'', the seventeenth-century ''

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'', the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century ''

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'', and the fourteenth-century ''

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''. ''Annals of the Four Masters'' (2013a) § 1160.12; ''Annals of the Four Masters'' (2013b) § 1160.12; Downham (2013) pp. 166, 178; Woods (2013) p. 33; ''The Annals of Ulster'' (2012) § 1160.5; ''The Annals in Cotton MS'' (2010) § 1160; ''The Annals of Tigernach'' (2010) § 1160.5; ''The Annals of Ulster'' (2008) § 1160.5; ''Annals of Tigernach'' (2005) § 1160.5; Duffy (1992) p. 125 n. 159.

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