Donatus Ó Muireadhaigh, O.S.A. (

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: ''Donatus O'Murray''; died 1485) was a fifteenth-century

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. An Augustinian Canon, he was the Dean of Tuam before appointed

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on 2 December 1450., ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 375., ''A New History of Ireland'', volume IX, p. 320. He granted the status of

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to the St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church in

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in 1484. Archbishop Ó Muireadhaigh died in office on 17 January 1485., ''The Province of Connaught'', p. 11.

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* * * Archbishops of Tuam Christian clergy from County Galway 15th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland 1485 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Ireland-RC-archbishop-stub