John Óge Kirwan (aka ''Jhonock Kirwan''), fl. 1530–1531,
Mayor of Galway
The office of Mayor of Galway is an honorific title used by the of Galway City Council. The council has jurisdiction throughout its administrative area of the city of Galway which is the largest city in the province of Connacht, in Ireland. The ...
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The Ó Ciardhubháin family moved from
Dunmore, County Galway
Dunmore () is a town in County Galway, Ireland. It is located on the N83 national secondary road at its junction with the R328 and R360 regional roads.
The town belongs to an ancient tuath called Conmhaícne Dúna-Móir and Cenél Dubáin ...
to Galway town in the 1480s following a land dispute with
Baron Athenry
Baron Athenry is one of the oldest titles in the Peerage of Ireland, but the date of its creation is thoroughly uncertain; each of the first four Berminghams listed below is claimed by some writers to have been Lord Athenry, but the evidence is di ...
. The then head of the family was
William Ó Ciardhubháin, whose eldest son, Thomas, became Mayor in 1534, while his second son, Patrick, became first
Warden of Galway
The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas is a medieval church building in Galway, Ireland. It is a collegiate church and the parish church of St. Nicholas Church of Ireland parish, which covers Galway city. It was founded in 1320 and dedicated to ...
.
John Óge's relationship to these men is unknown, but he was the first member of the family to attain significant political office in the
Anglo-Irish town of Galway.
References
* ''History of Galway'',
James Hardiman
James Hardiman (1782–1855), also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway.
Hardiman is best remembered for his '' History of the Town and County of Galway'' (1820) and '' Irish Minstrelsy'' (1831), one of the f ...
,
Galway
Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay, and is the sixth most populous city on ...
, 1820.
* ''Old Galway'',
Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan
Mary Josephine Donovan O'Sullivan was Professor of History at Queens College, Galway (now NUI Galway) from 1914 to 1957.
Biography
One of ten children, four of whom survived infancy, Donovan was born at Fair Hill Road in Galway on 24 November ...
, 1942.
* Henry, William (2002). ''Role of Honour: The Mayors of Galway City 1485-2001''. Galway: Galway City Council.
* Martyn, Adrian (2016). ''The Tribes of Galway: 1124-1642''
Mayors of Galway
16th-century Irish politicians
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