The Uí Lochlainn, also known as the Ó Lochlainn family, were a leading kindred in

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. The Uí Lochlainn were a branch of the Corcu Mruad. In

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their surname was '' Ua Lochlainn'' and '' Ó Lochlainn''. Forms of the personal name ''

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'' first appear on record in the tenth century; the earliest known bearer being Lochlaind mac Maíl Shechnaill, heir of the Corcu Mruad, whose death is noted in 983. In the sixteenth century, the family's principal seat was situated in the Gragans, at a tower house near the site of the later

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. The Uí Lochlainn chieftains lost autonomy in the seventeenth century, although later descendants of the chiefs continued to live in the heart of the family's ancestral lands until twentieth century. Gibson (2012) pp. 247, 306 n. 1.

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