Énri Ó Connmhaigh () was
Bishop of Clonfert
The Bishop of Clonfert () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clonfert in County Galway, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title; but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with oth ...
and
Bishop of Kilmacduagh
The Bishop of Kilmacduagh was an episcopal title which took its name after the village of Kilmacduagh in County Galway, Ireland. In both the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, the title is now united with other bishoprics.
Histo ...
.
Bishop Ó Connmhaigh was one of at least two bearers of the surname (now rendered as
Conway
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to hold this office. He was succeeded by a
Seaán Ó Connmhaigh
Seaán Ó Connmhaigh was Abbot of Corcomroe Abbey, Corcomroe and Bishop of Clonfert and Bishop of Kilmacduagh during 1419–1441.
Bishop Ó Connmhaigh was one of at least two bearers of the surname (now rendered as Conway (surname), Conway to h ...
, who became bishop in 1441. An apparent
kinsman
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,
Máel Muire Ó Connaig
Máel Muire Ó Connaig, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, died 1224.
Máel Muire Ó Connaig may have been the first of a number of a number of members of the same family who occupied the see. Énri Ó Connmhaigh (fl. 1405) and Seaán Ó Connmhaigh (1441– ...
, who held the office from may have been a
relative
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*Kinship and family, the principle binding the most basic social units of society. If two people are connected by circumstances of birth, they are said to be ''relatives''.
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who bore an earlier version of the surname.
Ó Connmhaigh, originally
bishop of Clonfert
The Bishop of Clonfert () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clonfert in County Galway, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title; but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with oth ...
, was translated from that
diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
to
Kilmacduagh
Kilmacduagh () is a small village in south County Galway, Ireland, near Gort. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name, in Kiltartan barony.
It is the site of Kilmacduagh monastery, seat of a diocese of the same name. Th ...
on 11 March 1405. He succeeded
Gregorius Ó Leaáin
Nicol Ó Leaáin, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, from 1394 to 1397. Ó Leaáin (O'Leane, Lane, Linnane) is associated with the Oranmore-Clarenbridge area of County Galway.
Ó Leaáin was appointed 14 October 1393 and consecrated c. 1394; confirmed bisho ...
, whose office was vacant from his death in 1397 until Énri was appointed in 1405. He in turn was succeeded at some unknown date by Dionysius (died 1410).
See also
*
Catholic Church in Ireland
The Catholic Church in Ireland, or Irish Catholic Church, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See. With 3.5 million members (in the Republic of Ireland), it is the largest Christian church in Ireland. In ...
References
* ''The Surnames of Ireland'',
Edward MacLysaght
Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght (; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was a genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Rev. Pat ...
, 1978.
* ''A New History of Ireland: Volume IX – Maps, Genealogies, Lists'', ed. T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin, F.J. Byrne, pp. 322–324.
External links
* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/
* http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID=
Bishops of Kilmacduagh
15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
Bishops of Clonfert
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