Miles de Angulo ( Irish: ''Miles Bregach Mac Goisdelbh'')

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and

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, fl. 1245–1259. Son of Phillip fitz William de Angulo. Called by the Irish 'Mac Goisdelbh' (i.e., the son of Jocelyn). Walter de Lacy gave a grant of

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to the

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and Miles fought for him there. He built Athachip castle in 1245, but was driven out in 1247. He later became the lord of Sliabh Lugha in Castlemore, in what would later be called the barony of Costello. Miles was married to a daughter of

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; upon her death, she was buried at

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, in

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. Miles died in 1259, and was succeeded in the

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by his eldest son Hugh. He had three sons Hugh (died 1260?), Gilbert Mor and Phillip (died 1288), and a daughter, Eleanor, who married

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, ancestor of the

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References

*Knox, Hubert Thomas. ''The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps.'' Originally published 1908, Hodges Figgis and Co. Dublin. Reprinted by De Burca rare books, 1982. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Angulo, Miles de 13th-century births 1259 deaths Norman warriors Angulo, Miles de 13th-century Irish people People of Conmaicne Maigh Nissi