Eidhean mac Cléireach, ancestor of the Ó hEidhin/

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family of County Galway, fl. 800. Eidhean was a member of the

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Uí Fiachrach Aidhne Uí Fhiachrach Aidhne (also known as Hy Fiachrach) was a kingdom located in what is now the south of County Galway. Legendary origins and geography Originally known as Aidhne, it was said to have been settled by the mythical Fir Bolg. Dubhalta ...

, and a descendant of

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(d. 663),

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mac Eochaid Mugmedon (fl. 5th century) and thus distantly related to the dynasty of

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. His descendants ruled

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for a time, most notably in the 1090s when Flaithbertaigh Ua Flaithbertaigh seized the kingship of Connacht and installed an Ó hEidhin as a puppet-king for a time. Eidhean was a kinsman of a number of other men whose descendants also took their surnames from them, such as * Comhaltan mac Maol CúlairdÓ Comhaltan, Colton, Coulton * Cathal mac ÓgánÓ Cathail, Cahill * Giolla Ceallaigh mac Comhaltan MacGiolla Ceallaigh, Kilkelly and, of course * Cleireach himself Though in many cases the relationship between these men was quite distant, Eidhean would have been a contemporary or near-contemporary of almost all of them. He was killed in battle against

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, about the year 800.

References

* ''The Surnames of Ireland'',

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, 1978. * ''Irish Kings and High Kings'',

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, 2001 (second edition). * ''

The Great Book of Irish Genealogies ''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 ...

, 257.9, pp. 586-87, volume one,

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; edited, with translation and indices by

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'', 2003-2004. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Eidhean Mac Cleireach People from County Galway 7th-century Irish people 8th-century Irish people Gaels

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