Tadhg Mac Lochlainn ( fl. 1907 – May 1999) was an Irish local

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

. Mac Loughlin was a native of Killure, near

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, and an innovator in the promotion of local studies, been the author of half-a-dozen books on the subject, as well a number of articles. He was a member of

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, the

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, the

National Athletic and Cycling Association The National Athletic and Cycling Association (NACA or N.A. and C.A.), from 1990 the National Athletic and Cycling Association of Ireland (NACAI or NACA(I)) was a federation of sports clubs in the island of Ireland practising athletics or bicyc ...

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and several other Irish cultural organisations. He was secretary of a committee which pioneered the erection of the

Battle of Aughrim The Battle of Aughrim ( ga, Cath Eachroma) was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the largely Irish Jacobite army loyal to James II and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691 (old style, equivale ...

Memorial, was first secretary of the Ballinasloe Development Association and a member of

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. His sons

Ray McLoughlin Raymond John McLoughlin (21 August 1939 – 20 November 2021) was an Ireland rugby union international who was capped 40 times at prop, an Irish record at the time. He began at tight head, moving to the open side on his return to the Ireland te ...

and Feidlim MacLoughlin were

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international

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players.

Select bibliography

* ''Inniu agus Inne'' * ''The Parish of Aughrim and Kilconnell'' * ''Ahascragh/Caltra'' * ''Killure/Fohena'' * ''The Parish of Lawrencetown and Kiltormer'', 1982

External links

* https://openlibrary.org/a/OL1058142A/Tadhg_Mac_Lochlainn * http://www.ballinasloe.org/articles/article.php?ID=8 * http://www.ballinasloe.org/articles/people.php 1930 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Irish historians People from Ballinasloe Writers from County Galway {{Ireland-historian-stub