Domnall Ruadh Ó Máille,

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Umaill Umhaill or Umhall (anglicized as Owill or Owel) was a Gaelic territory around Clew Bay in the west of what is now County Mayo, Ireland, comprising the baronies of Burrishoole (Lower Owel) and Murrisk (Upper Owel). By the 12th century, its rul ...

, died 11 November 1337. Ó Máille was a descendant of

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 ...

, and was ruler of the territory of Umaill during the 1330s. He is given as a son of Brian mac Domnall Ó Máille and had a brother, Diarmait. Domnall Ruadh had at least three children: Cormac, Brian, Tadhg (Knox, 388). The

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of the 1330s led to unrest and outright warfare in

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(Knox, 134). Ó Máille and his son Cormac seem to have been casualties of the conflict. The

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state that ''"Donnell Roe O'Malley and Cormac, his son, were slain on St. Martin's Night by Clann-Merrick, and other Englishmen who were along with them."'' Cormac Ó Máille had issue Mael Secachlainn, Maghnus, Eoghan and Muiredhach, but their descendants do not seem to be recorded in any extant

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. Domnall Ruadh's descendants seemed to have lost power and faded from history, to be replaced by the descendants of Eoghan mac Diarmait Ó Máille, nephew to Domnall Ruadh. Eoghan had twelve recorded sons, and it seems that all subsequent chiefs of Umaill descended from him.

References

* ''The History of Mayo'',

Hubert T. Knox Hubert Thomas Knox (1845–1921) was an Irish historian. He was the third son of Charles Knox of Ballinrobe, who would later be High Sheriff of Mayo in 1860 and was a colonel in the North Mayo Militia. His great-grandfather was James Cuffe, 1 ...

, 1908, p.134, 388. {{DEFAULTSORT:O Maille, Domnall Ruadh Monarchs from County Mayo 14th-century Irish monarchs

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