Sén-Brian Ó Dubhda (died 1354) was

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of Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe.

Overview

In a section (276.14, pp. 626–627) of

Leabhar na nGenealach ''Leabhar na nGenealach'' ("Book of Genealogies") is a massive genealogical collection written mainly in the years 1649 to 1650, at the college-house of St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh. He continued to add m ...

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (), also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius ( fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, histori ...

writes of the fate of the

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proprietors of Ui Fiachrach. ''"The English banished these chieftains from their native places (which we have enumerated) until Sein-Bhrian s. Taithleach of the Moy Ó Dubhda captured the country (especially Tireragh) from the English. Although he did capture it, I think that many of the same chieftains did not get hold of much of their native territories since then, for the family, grandsons, and great-grandsons of Sein-Bhrian divided the land among themselves, though they do not possess it today and only a very small portion of the aforesaid chieftains still survive."'' This is confirmed in the

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, ''sub anno'' 1338, which states "Leyny and Corran were laid waste and wrested from the English, and the chieftainship of them assumed by the hereditary Irish chieftains, after the expulsion of the English." The

record his presence at the

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(''Brian O'Dowda, Lord of Hy-Fiachrach''). He survived, though the dead included ''Melaghlin Carragh O'Dowda, Conor Oge O'Dowda, Murtough, son of Conor O'Dowda''. ''Araile do fhlathaibh Ua nDubhda'' says of him: * ''King of Ui Fiachrach and Ui Amhalghaid, died in his own house having been 84 years in lordship.''

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005A/

References

* ''The History of Mayo'',

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, p. 379, 1908. * ''Genealach Ua fFiachrach Muaidhe'', 263.8 (pp. 596–97), 264.5 (pp. 598–99); ''Araile do fhlathaibh Ua nDubhda''/''Some of the princes of Ui Dhubhda'', pp. 676–681; ''

:The Great Book of Irish Genealogies'',

(died 1671), eag.

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, 2004–05, De Burca,

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. People from County Sligo Monarchs from County Mayo 14th-century Irish monarchs 1354 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Ireland-royal-stub