Nuala Ní Conchobair (died
1226
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of
Ulaid
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Ní Conchobair was a daughter of King
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair
Ruaidrí mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair (Modern Irish: Ruairí Ó Conchúir; anglicized as Rory O'Conor) ( – 2 December 1198) was Kings of Connacht, King of Connacht from 1156 to 1186, and High King of Ireland from 1166 to 1198. He was the l ...
(c.1116-1198) and a wife of King
Ruaidrí Mac Duinn Sléibe
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of
Ulaidh (died 1201).
After the fall of the kingdom to
John de Courcy
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MacDonlevy (dynasty)
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(I. Mac Duinn Sléibe) were obliged to seek protection in
Connacht
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. They were again forced to move as a result of the encastellation of Connacht by
Richard Mor de Burgh
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, with the result that they were dispersed and faded utterly from power.
Following the death of her husband in 1201, Nuala apparently lived somewhere in north Galway, near
Cong, where she was interred upon her death in 1226:
''Nuala inghen Ruaidhri Uí Conchobhair baintighearna Uladh d'écc i c-Conga Fechin, & a h-adhnacal go h-onórach i t-teampall canánach Conga''/''Nuala, daughter of Roderic O'Conor, and Queen of Ulidia, died at Conga Fechin, and was honourably interred in the church of the Canons at Cong.''
References
* http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID=
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Textsa
University College Cork* ''Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair'', in ''Medieval Ireland:An Encyclopedia'', pp. 466–471, ed.
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People from County Galway
Medieval Gaels from Ireland
1226 deaths
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13th-century Irish people
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