Rechtabhra mac Dubbchomar (died 782) was
Abbot of
Aughrim, County Galway
Aughrim () is a small village in County Galway, Ireland. It is located between the towns of Loughrea and Ballinasloe, along the old N6 national primary road (now listed as the R446 regional road) that used to be the main road between Galway and ...
.
Rechtabhra mac Dubbchomar is one of only five known bishops, abbots or
Erenaghs of Aughrim. He is the first to be explicitly noted as an abbot, while the previous three were stated as being bishops.
Events during his lifetime included:
* 746 - Death of Coman, founder of
Roscommon; the
Blood court at Cannstatt
* 755 -
Offa
Offa (died 29 July 796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of Æt ...
deposes Bernred of
Mercia; death of Gaimdibhla of Aran.
* 769 - Death of Tomaltach mac Murghal, King of Mag Ai.
* 781 - Battle of Ath Liacc Finn;
Tallaght Monastery founded by
Máel Ruain
References
* ''Annals of Ulster'' a
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Textsa
University College Cork* ''Annals of Tigernach'' a
a
University College Cork
of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
* Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press,
* Lysaght, Eamonn (1978), The Surnames of Ireland. , pp. 233–34.
Bishops or Abbots of Aughrim
8th-century Irish abbots
782 deaths
Year of birth unknown
{{Ireland-reli-bio-stub