Máel Muire Ó Connaig,
Bishop of Kilmacduagh
The Bishop of Kilmacduagh was an episcopal title which took its name after the village of Kilmacduagh in County Galway, Ireland. In both the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, the title is now united with other bishoprics.
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, died 1224.
Máel Muire Ó Connaig may have been the first of a number of a number of members of the same family who occupied the see. Énri Ó Connmhaigh (
fl.
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1405) and Seaán Ó Connmhaigh (1441–78) may bear later forms of a surname that is now rendered as
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.
Bishop Ó Connaig predecessor, Ua Cellaig, died sometime in 1215 but it is not known when he himself was appointed or
consecrated
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. He died in 1224.
References
* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/
* http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID=
* ''The Surnames of Ireland'',
Edward MacLysaght
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, 1978.
Christian clergy from County Galway
Medieval Gaels from Ireland
13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
1224 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Bishops of Kilmacduagh
Place of birth missing
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