Conchobair Ó Maolalaidh was an Irish churchman who became successively bishop of

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(1447–1448),

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(1448–1449) and Elphin (1449–1468).

Biography

Conchobair was a brother of

Seán Ó Maolalaidh Seán Ó Maolalaidh (fl. 1419–1480) was Chief of the Name. Ó Maolalaidh of Máenmaige The Ó Maolalaidhs ( Lally, Mullally) were, with the Ó Nechtains (Naughton), one of the two leading septs of Máenmaige in western Uí Maine. There is so ...

. Their family had been expelled from Máenmaige by the Mac Hubert Burkes before 1445 and under Seán had relocated to

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as tenents of

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. Conchobair was a

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friar, and was advanced to

by provision of

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on 22 May 1447. He

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to the see of

on the 22 August 1448, and the following year he translated again to Elphin on the 20 October 1449, where he remained until his death in 1468. Other members of his family included *

Tomás Ó Maolalaidh Tomás Ó Maolalaidh () (died 28 April 1536) was an Irish churchman who became Bishop of Clonmacnoise (c.1509-1514) and Archbishop of Tuam (1514–1536). He held a synod at Galway in 1523, attended by bishops of Kilmacduagh, Achonry Clonmacnois ...

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(c. 1509–1514) and

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(1514–1536) * William O'Mullaly,

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(1558–1572) and

(1572–1595) * James Lally (died 1691) * Gerard Lally (died 1737) *

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, baron de Tollendal (1702–1766) * Trophime-Gérard, marquis de Lally-Tollendal (1751–1830)

References

* ''History of O'Mullally and Lally clans ...'', by D.P. O'Mullally, Chicago, 1941. * {{DEFAULTSORT:O Maolalaidh, Conchobair Christian clergy from County Galway Medieval Gaels from Ireland 15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Bishops of Clonfert Bishops of Elphin Bishops of Emly