Mac Gilla Cellaig Ua Ruaidín (died 1204) was

Bishop of Kilmacduagh The Bishop of Kilmacduagh was an episcopal title which took its name after the village of Kilmacduagh in County Galway, Ireland. In both the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, the title is now united with other bishoprics. Histo ...

. Mac Gilla Cellaig Ua Ruaidín became Bishop sometime after the death of his predecessor, and apparent kinsman,

Ímar Ua Ruaidín Ímar Ua Ruaidín (died 1176) was Bishop of Kilmacduagh. Ua Ruaidín (Ó Ruaidín, Rooane, Ruane, Rowan) was of one of two apparently unrelated families, based in what would become County Mayo and County Galway, respectively. The Galway family w ...

, in 1176. His

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may indicate links to a local family, Mac Giolla Cheallaigh, who were a branch of the local Ui Fiachrach Aidhne dynasty. Like his predecessor, he died in office. A later bishop bearing the surname was

Gilla Cellaig Ó Ruaidín Gilla Cellaig Ó Ruaidín, aka Gilbert Ó Ruane, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, died 1204. Ó Ruaidín (Rooane, Ruane, Rowan) was the third member of his family to serve as Bishop of Kilmacduagh, and the last. His family was one of two apparently unre ...

, 1248–53. In the early 20th-century, Tom Ruane of Carnmore was Captain of the Second Western Division,

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, from 1916 to 1920. Ua Ruaidín (Ó Ruaidín, Rooane, Ruane, Rowan) was of one of two apparently unrelated families, based in what would become County Mayo and County Galway, respectively. The Galway family was of the Ui Maine. The Mayo family sometimes appears as Rowah. Both versions are found in both counties. Ó Ruadháin derives from first name Ruadhán, ''the red-haired one.''

References

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/ * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= * ''The Surnames of Ireland'',

Edward MacLysaght Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght ( ga, Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was a genealogist of twentieth century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames ...

, 1978. Christian clergy from County Galway Medieval Gaels from Ireland 12th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Bishops of Kilmacduagh 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland {{Medieval-bishop-stub