Domhnall Ua Máille,
Lord
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power (social and political), power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the Peerage o ...
of Ui Mail and
Chief of the Name
The Chief of the Name, or in older English usage Captain of his Nation, is the recognised head of a family or clan ( Irish and Scottish Gaelic: ''fine'') in Ireland and Scotland.
Ireland
There are instances where Norman lords of the time like ...
, died 1176.
Ua Máille was lord of the area around
Clew Bay
Clew Bay (; ) is a large ocean bay on the Atlantic coast of County Mayo, Ireland. It is roughly rectangular and has more than a hundred small islands on its landward side; Ireland's best example of sunken drumlins. The larger Clare Island guar ...
in what is now
County Mayo
County Mayo (; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, it is named after the village of Mayo, County Mayo, Mayo, now ge ...
. According to Knox, his
pedigree is as follows:
''Domnall mac Muiredhach mac Domnall Finn mac Muiredhach mac Dubhdara mac Muiredhach mac Dubhdara mac Dubhdara mac Flannabhra mac Seachnusach mac
Maille mac Conall
Maille mac Conall, member of the Umhaill, ancestor and eponym of the O'Malley family of County Mayo.
Maille was a grandson of Cosgrach mac Flannbhrath, king of Ui Maill (died 812). He had an unnamed brother, from whom the O'Gormghaile family ...
.''
Domhnall himself is given a son, Brian, who had sons
Domnall Ruadh Ó Máille (died 1337) and Diarmait.
See also
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Grace O'Malley
Gráinne O'Malley (, ; – ), also known as Grace O'Malley, was the head of the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland, and the daughter of Eóghan Dubhdara Ó Máille.
Upon her father's death, she took over active leadership of the lords ...
, c.1530-c.1603, "Pirate Queen of Connacht."
*
Óró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile
Family tree
Domhnall Ua Máille, died 1176.
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Cormac Cruinn Ó Máille Eoghan Brian Cormac Buadhach Ruaibh
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Cormac Diarmait Eoghan Dubhdara Tadhg
External links
* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/
References
* ''The History of Mayo'', pp. 388–89, T.H. Knox, 1902.
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Medieval Gaels from Ireland
12th-century Irish people
Monarchs from County Mayo
Irish lords
1176 deaths
Year of birth unknown