Hugh MacMahon (1660–1737) was

Bishop of Clogher The Bishop of Clogher (, ) is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clogher in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Following the Reformation, there are now parallel apostolic successions: one of the Church of Ireland and ...

1707–1715 and

Archbishop of Armagh The Archbishop of Armagh is an Episcopal polity, archiepiscopal title which takes its name from the Episcopal see, see city of Armagh in Northern Ireland. Since the Reformation in Ireland, Reformation, there have been parallel apostolic success ...

1715–1737. Born in 1660 in the townland of Cavany, Scotshouse,

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, the son of Colla Dubh Mac Mahon of the Dartry branch of the clan and Eibhlin O'Reilly, the daughter of Colonel Philip O'Reilly, the Cavan leader in the 1641 Rebellion. Hugh MacMahon was appointed as

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on 15 March 1707, following the death of his predecessor, Patrick Tyrrell in 1689. In 1711, he was appointed the

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for the Diocese of Kilmore; he resigned from this position in 1728. On 8 July 1715 he was appointed to the position of

. Hugh MacMahon was the first of three Clogher bishops who were, in succession, appointed to the See of Armagh.Archbishop Hugh MacMahon
''Catholic Hierarchy''. Retrieved 21 June 2009. He died in Armagh on 7 August 1737. Bishop MacMahon was one of several priests who were targets for Edward Tyrrell the priest-hunter working in Dublin and the Wicklow area around 1712.

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