Conchobar Ó Muirdaig (died 1247) was Bishop of Kilmacduagh. Ó Muirdaig's surname is a common one in

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, variantly written as Ó Muireachaidh. The most prominent

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family of the name were natives of the kingdom Uí Maine (now east

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and south

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). The surname is now generally anglicised as Murray. The

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, ''sub anno'' 1246, reads "Turlough, the son of Hugh O'Conor, made his escape from the Crannog wooden house of Lough Leisi in Autumn, having drowned his keepers, namely, Cormac O'Murray, and the two O'Ainmireachs. He was again taken while under the protection of the Bishop of Cluain Clonfert, and, being given up into the hands of the English, was confined in the castle of Athlone." An extract from the same annals, dated 1484, reads "Teige, the son of William, son of Hugh, son of Brian O'Kelly, was slain by Brian O'Kelly, his own brother, and William O'Murray, his own foster-brother, who were afterwards hanged by O'Kelly for their misdeeds." Bishop Ó Muirdaig's term witnessed the invasion and

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of Connacht begin under

Richard Mor de Burgh Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and ...

(c. 1194–1242) and the collapse of the Ó Conchobair kingship.

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20160523012406/http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= * ''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. Christian clergy from County Galway Medieval Gaels from Ireland 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland 1247 deaths Year of birth unknown Bishops of Kilmacduagh {{Medieval-bishop-stub