Domhnall Ua Máille,
Lord
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or ar ...
of Ui Mail and
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 Eliza ...
, died 1176.
Ua Máille was lord of the area around
Clew Bay
Clew Bay (; ga, Cuan Mó) is a natural ocean bay in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland. It contains Ireland's best example of sunken drumlins.
The bay is overlooked by Croagh Patrick to the south and the Nephin Range mountains of North Mayo. C ...
in what is now
County Mayo
County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Conn ...
. According to Knox, his
pedigree is as follows:
''Domnall mac Muiredhach mac Domnall Finn mac Muiredhach mac Dubhdara mac Muiredhach mac Dubhdara mac Dubhdara mac Flannabhra mac Seachnusach mac
Maille mac Conall
Maille mac Conall, member of the Umhaill, ancestor and eponym of the O'Malley family of County Mayo.
Maille was a grandson of Cosgrach mac Flannbhrath, king of Ui Maill (died 812). He had an unnamed brother, from whom the O'Gormghaile family de ...
.''
Domhnall himself is given a son, Brian, who had sons
Domnall Ruadh Ó Máille (died 1337) and Diarmait.
See also
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Grace O'Malley
Grace O'Malley ( – c. 1603), also known as Gráinne O'Malley ( ga, Gráinne Ní Mháille, ), was the head of the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland, and the daughter of Eóghan Dubhdara Ó Máille.
In Irish folklore she is commonly k ...
, c.1530-c.1603, "Pirate Queen of Connacht."
*
Óró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile
Family tree
Domhnall Ua Máille, died 1176.
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Diarmait
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Eoghan mac Diarmait Ó Máille
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Cormac Cruinn Ó Máille Eoghan Brian Cormac Buadhach Ruaibh
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Cormac Diarmait Eoghan Dubhdara Tadhg
External links
* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/
References
* ''The History of Mayo'', pp. 388–89, T.H. Knox, 1902.
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Medieval Gaels from Ireland
12th-century Irish people
Monarchs from County Mayo
Irish lords
1176 deaths
Year of birth unknown