Muirchertach Ua Máel Uidir,

Bishop of Clonfert The Bishop of Clonfert () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clonfert in County Galway, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title; but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with oth ...

, died 1187. Ua Máel Uidir was

Bishop of Clonmacnoise Bishop of Clonmacnoise was the ordinary of the Roman Catholic episcopal see based at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland. The bishops of Clonmacnoise (Old Irish: ''Cluain Moccu Nóis'') appear in the records for the first time in the 9th century ...

since about 1152. He was made Bishop of Clonfert in 1186, dying in office the following year.

References

Sources

* ''The Surnames of Ireland'',

Edward MacLysaght Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght (; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was a genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Pat ...

, 1978. * ''A New History of Ireland: Volume IX - Maps, Genealogies, Lists'', ed. T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin, F.J. Byrne.

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/ * http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G105007/index.html Christian clergy from County Galway Medieval Gaels from Ireland 12th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Bishops of Clonfert Bishops of Clonmacnoise {{Medieval-bishop-stub