Amlaid Ua Domhnalláin (died 1177), Chief

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Connacht Connacht or Connaught ( ; or ), is the smallest of the four provinces of Ireland, situated in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, C ...

. Amlaid Ua Domhnalláin was a member of a

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ic family, Ó Domhnalláin of Clan Breasil, Máenmaige in Ui Maine (now Ballydonnellan,

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). Other such members of his family would include Flann Óc mac Séoan Ó Domhnalláin, Flann Óge Ó Domhnalláin, Mael Sechlainn Ó Domhnalláin,

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, Padraig Ó Domhnallain, Ainglioch Ó Dónalláin and Seosamh Ó Dónalláin. The

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Donnellan remains fairly common in Galway.

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005B/

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ua Domhnallain, Amlaid Writers from County Galway 1177 deaths 12th-century Irish poets 12th-century Irish writers Year of birth unknown Irish male poets