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John Na Mointech Mac Áeda
John na Mointech Mac Áeda, Chief of the Name, died 1582. The Annals of Lough Ce, ''sub anno'' 1582, record that ''Mac Aedha of the Mointech, i.e., John, was killed by the people of the Eill.'' His ancestor, Ruaidhri Mac Aedha, was Lord of Clann Cosgraigh on his death in 1170. The family were of the Muintir Murchada, and closely related to the Ó Flaithbheartaigh family. The surname is nowadays rendered Hughes, McHugh, McGagh, or more rarely, McCoy. See also * Muireadhach mac Aedh, died 1124. * Máelsechlain Mac Áeda, died 1267. * Máel Sechlain Mac Áeda Máel Sechlain Mac Áeda (alternatively Malachias Mac Aodha, anglicised Malachy McHugh) was the Archbishop of Tuam 131210 August 1348. Background Máel Seachlainn Mac Áeda was a member of a Connacht family associated with the Kings of Connacht ..., Archbishop of Tuam 1312–10 August 1348. References * http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100011/index.html * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Of The Name
The Chief of the Name, or in older English usage Captain of his Nation, is the recognised head of a family or clan (''fine'' in Irish and Scottish Gaelic). The term has sometimes been used as a title in Ireland and Scotland. In Ireland In Elizabethan times, the position of Chief of the Name was more important to some Irish leaders than English titles. There are instances where Norman lords of the time like FitzGerald, took to using the Gaelic style of "The" or "Mór" (great) to indicate that the individual was the primary person of his family in Ireland. Chiefs were elected from their clan's "Derbfine", a group of cousins who were all at least the great-grandsons of former chiefs. In the Tudor period the Kingdom of Ireland was established in 1542, and many of the former autonomous clan chiefs were assimilated under the English legal system via the policy of surrender and regrant. At the same time mentions were made in official records of locally-powerful landlords described as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annals Of Lough Ce
Annals ( la, annāles, from , "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record. Scope The nature of the distinction between annals and history is a subject based on divisions established by the ancient Romans. Verrius Flaccus is quoted by Aulus Gellius as stating that the etymology of ''history'' (from Greek , , equated with Latin , "to inquire in person") properly restricts it to primary sources such as Thucydides's which have come from the author's own observations, while annals record the events of earlier times arranged according to years. White distinguishes annals from chronicles, which organize their events by topics such as the reigns of kings, and from histories, which aim to present and conclude a narrative implying the moral importance of the events recorded. Generally speaking, annalists record events drily, leaving the entries unexplained and equally we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruaidhri Mac Aedha
Ruaidhri Mac Aedha, Lord of Clann Cosgraigh, died 1170. Mac Aeda was a descendant of Aedh mac Ruaidri, via his son, Muireadhach mac Aedh, whose descendants took the surname Mac Aedha. The Clann Mac Aedha were rulers of Clann Cosgraigh, a district on the east shore of Lough Corrib in what is now County Galway. Ruaidhri Mac Aedha died on a pilgrimage to Tuam in 1170. A 13th-century member of the family would become Archbishop of Tuam The Archbishop of Tuam ( ; ga, Ard-Easpag Thuama) is an archbishop which takes its name after the town of Tuam in County Galway, Ireland. The title was used by the Church of Ireland until 1839, and is still in use by the Catholic Church. Histor .... The surname is now rendered McHugh or Hughes, based on the traditional identification of the name Áed or Aodh with the (unrelated) English name Hugh, though Irish speakers in Galway have also retained a pronunciation that has produced the transcription McGagh, McGah or McGarr. References * ''Medie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clann Cosgraigh
Clann Cosgraigh or Clann Coscraig was a branch of the Uí Briúin Seóla dynasty and also the name of the district on the eastern side of Lough Corrib, County Galway which they inhabited and ruled prior to the Norman invasion. Its chiefs were the Meic Áeda (now rendered McHugh or McGagh, via ''Mac Aodha''), who, like the Muintir Murchada, claimed descent from Cenn Fáelad mac Colgan, King of Connacht. Early generations of the lineage competed with the Muintir Murchada and Uí Fiachrach Aidhne for the kingship of South Connacht. In 1124 ''Muireadhach (i.e. lord of Clann-Coscraigh), the son of Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, died an ecclesiastic.'' In 1170, ''Ruaidhri Mac Aedha, lord of Clann-Cosgraigh, died on his pilgrimage at Tuaim-da-ghualann.'' See also * Donn mac Cumasgach * Ruaidhrí mac Coscraigh Ruaidhrí mac Coscraigh was King of South Connacht and of Uí Briúin and a third great-grandson of the eponym of Clann Cosgraigh. Ruaidhri is mentioned in the ''Annals of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muintir Murchada
Muintir Murchada was the name of an Irish territory which derived its name from the ruling dynasty, who were in turn a branch of the Uí Briúin. The name was derived from Murchadh mac Maenach, King of Uí Briúin Seóla, who died 891. Overview The ruling dynasty was first recorded as a lineage in 1061 and by 1238 the term denoted the territory. It came under the control of the Uí Briúin about the 11th century, its original rulers taking the surname Ó Flaithbheartaigh ( O'Flaherty). They were expelled by the Ua Conchobhair Kings of Connacht to Iar Connacht where they are still to be found. Muintir Murchada appears to have comprised the following parishes: Killursa, Kilkilvery, Killeany, Kilcoona, Cargin, Killower, Cummer. It also is thought to have included parts of Belclare, Donaghpatrick, Corofin, Tuam, Kilbennan and Killererin. Crichaireacht cinedach nduchasa Muintiri Murchada is a tract dating to the reign of its lord, Flaithbertaigh Ua Flaithbertaigh (died 1098), who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hughes (surname)
Hughes is an English language surname. Origins Hughes is an Anglicized spelling of the Welsh and Irish patronymic surname. The surname may also derive from the etymologically unrelated Picard variant Hugh (Old French ''Hue'') of the Germanic name Hugo. In Wales and other areas of Brythonic Britain, the surname derives from the personal name "Hu" or "Huw", meaning "fire" or "inspiration". At the British Census of 1881, the relative frequency of the surname Hughes was highest on the Welsh island of Ynys Môn (Anglesey; 37.2 times the British average), followed by Gwynedd, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Meirionydd, Montgomeryshire, Ceredigion, Radnorshire and Carmarthenshire. In Ireland, the surname evolved from the ancient Irish name of Ó hAodha, for a grandson/descendant of Aodh (meaning "fire"). Aodh was frequently Anglicized as Hugh, with Ó hAodha in turn being Anglicized as Hughes or Hayes. "Hughes" is often found in the northern Irish province of Ulster, being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McHugh (other)
McHugh is a common surname of Irish origin. It is an anglicisation of the original Irish ''Mac Aodha'', meaning literally "Son of Aodh". Aodh was a popular male given name in mediaeval Gaelic Ireland. It was traditionally written in English-language documents as Hugh, an unrelated name of Frankish origin. The first bearers of the surname were the grandsons of Aodh (died 1033), who was son of Ruaidhrí mac Coscraigh, King of South Connacht. The surname's pronunciation in Irish has also given rise to the spelling McGagh (otherwise McGah or McGarr), forms of the surname which are geographically concentrated around the area of Belclare parish in County Galway, the centre of the Clann Cosgraigh territory ruled by the historical McHughs. Other anglicised versions of the surname include Hughes and Hewson. Notable people bearing this surname include: *Bob McHugh (musician), American pianist and composer * Bob McHugh (footballer) (born 1991), Scottish footballer * Brendan McHugh (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCoy (surname)
McCoy is a common surname of Scottish origin in the lands of Kintyre and then Irish ( Gallowglass) origin. It is an Anglicisation of its Irish form Mac Aodha, meaning son of Aodh (a name of a deity in Irish mythology and an Irish word for " fire"). It is particularly found in Ulster (Counties Antrim, Armagh and Monaghan) where many settled around the 13th century, having been Gallowglasses, and also in counties Limerick and Cork. Aoidh and Mac Aoigh were sometimes Anglicised as Hugh and McHugh. People *One of the families in the 19th century Hatfield-McCoy feud in Kentucky/West Virginia * Al McCoy (announcer), American sports broadcaster * Al McCoy (boxer) (1894–1966), middleweight champion boxer *Alban McCoy (born 1951), British priest and writer, former Catholic Chaplain of Cambridge University * Alfred McCoy (American football) (1899–1990), American college sports coach *Alfred W. McCoy, American author and scholar of the Asian heroin drug trade * Alice McCoy (pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muireadhach Mac Aedh
Muireadhach mac Aedh, Lord of Clann Cosgraigh, died 1124. He was a distant cousin of the Muintir Murchada, of whom the O'Flahertys were chiefs. The Annals of the Four Masters, ''sub anno'' 1124, state that ''Muireadhach (i.e., lord of Clann-Cosgraigh), the son of Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, died an ecclesiastic.'' John O'Donovan, who edited the 1856 publishing of the Annals of the Four Masters, inserts "O'Flaithbheartaigh" after Ruaidhri's name, but this appears to be a mistake; O'Donovan confuses the Lord of Clann Cosgraigh with another Muireadhach mac Aedh mac Ruaidhri, who was an actual O'Flaherty. The McHughs, according to O'Flaherty, descend from Dungalaigh m. Cenn Faelad m. Colgan in generation 12 of his genealogical table, whereas the Muireadhach m. Aedh m. Ruaidri O'Flaherty is in generation 111 in the lineage of the O'Flahertys, as cited in O'Hart. Muireadhach's immediate descendants adopted the surname Mac Aedha. The surname is now rendered McHugh or Hughes, less com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máelsechlain Mac Áeda
Máelsechlain Mac Áeda (died 1267) was Lord of Clann Cosgraigh. The Mac Áeda were natives of Maigh Seóla, near Tuam, in what is now County Galway. They were originally of the Muintir Murchada, and closely related to the O'Flaherty family. The surname is nowadays rendered Hughes, McHugh, or more rarely, McCoy. The Annals of Connacht, ''sub anno'' 1267, state: * ''Maelsechlainn Mac Aeda and Conchobar his father and Aed his brother all died within three months.'' See also * Ruaidhri Mac Aedha, Lord of Clan Cosgraigh, died 1170 * Máel Sechlain Mac Áeda, Archbishop of Tuam The Archbishop of Tuam ( ; ga, Ard-Easpag Thuama) is an archbishop which takes its name after the town of Tuam in County Galway, Ireland. The title was used by the Church of Ireland until 1839, and is still in use by the Catholic Church. Histor ... 1312–10 August 1348. * John na Mointech Mac Áeda, killed 1582 References * http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100011/index.html * http://www.irishtim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máel Sechlain Mac Áeda
Máel Sechlain Mac Áeda (alternatively Malachias Mac Aodha, anglicised Malachy McHugh) was the Archbishop of Tuam 131210 August 1348. Background Máel Seachlainn Mac Áeda was a member of a Connacht family associated with the Kings of Connacht. They were natives of Maigh Seóla, near Tuam, and originally of the Clann Cosgraigh, which was a branch of the Uí Briúin and kin to the Muintir Murchada. The surname is nowadays rendered McHugh, or more rarely, McCoy. Episcopal career Mac Áeda was elected archbishop of Tuam about March 1312, but not translated from Elphin until 19 December 1312, and did not receive possession of the temporalities until 1 April 1313. Also known as Malachais Tuamensis or Malachi MacHugh, he died in 1348. Leabhair Mac Áeda He wrote what was described by O'Reilly as ''"a large volume of miscellaneous matter in Irish, containing, amongst other things, a catalogue of Irish kings from Niall Naoighiallach (Niall Noígíallach) to Roderick O'Conor (Ruaidrí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
