Ó Cluanáin was the name of a
brehon
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family from what is now
County Galway
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- MacLysaght calls it "Essentially a Co. Galway name."
Joseph Mannion notes that in 1551 one Nicholas O Clowan, an official of Tuam, was granted custody of the Franciscan friary at Clonkeenkerrill, County Galway. A townland in the area, now called Colmanstown, was originally Baile Uà Chlúmháin. The poet Antoine Ó Raifteiri (1784–1835) died at the house of a Diarmaid Cloonan, beside Killeenen church and graveyard, where he was buried. This is situated on the north bank of Rahasane turlough, in the parish of Craughwell.
In the early medieval era members of the family spread into what is now
County Mayo
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and
County Sligo
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. It is found in all three counties as
Cloonan.
See also
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Gilla Aenghus Ua Chlúmháin, poet, died 1143
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Aindileas Ua Chlúmháin
Aindileas Ua Chlúmháin (died 1170) was an Irish poet.
Aindileas was the son of Gilla Aenghus Ua Chlúmháin, ''ollamh of Connacht in poetry'', who died in 1143.
No surviving poems by either are known to still exist, except perhaps anonymously ...
, poet, died 1170
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Caoch Ceise Ó Chlúmháin, poet, fl. 14th century
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Jarlath Cloonan, Galway Senior Hurling Manager 1994–1998.
*
Eugene Cloonan - player with the Galway hurling team.
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.
* ''The Life, Legends and Legacy of Saint Kerrill'', Joseph Mannion, p. 93, 2004.
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