Pilib mac Séamus Mac Mathghamhna was a canon chorister of Clogher,

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and coarb of Clones Abbey. He was a successor of St. Tigernach in Clones and had for the greater part all the Fourths of the bishop of Oriel and the farming of the priors of Lughbadh and

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, he was bound for the annates of the rectory in 1477, which was to be united to his canonry for the term of his life. He died on the feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist 27 December in 1486, when he is styled coarb, and son of the coarb Séamus mac Ruaidhri Mac Mathghamhna.

Family

He was related to the Kings of Oriel. His grandfather, Ruaidhri mac Ardghail Mor Mac Mathghamhna, was the King of Oriel from 1442–1446. The Annals of the Four Masters mention his son's Niall who died on his way from Rome in 1484 and

Séamus mac Pilib Mac Mathghamhna Séamus mac Pilib Mac Mathghamhna (died 1519) was the Bishop of Derry. He was appointed Bishop-designate of Clogher on 5 November 1494. ''John Edmund de Courcy'' was also Bishop of Clogher around this time and he did not renounce his claim t ...

who became Bishop of Derry in 1502. Historians Peadar Livingstone, Robert Bell and Padraig Ó Gallachair all claim the McPhillips clan in Ulster are descendants of Pilib mac Séamus Mac Mathghamhna. The

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surname owes its origin to his great-grandfather Ardghail Mór. Robert Bell Book of Ulster Surnames, Page 214, published by The Blackstaff Press in 1988

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macmathghamhna, Seamus Macpilib 1486 deaths 15th-century Irish abbots People from County Monaghan 15th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Year of birth unknown