Gilla Cellaig Ó Ruaidín, aka Gilbert Ó Ruane,

Bishop of Kilmacduagh The Bishop of Kilmacduagh was an episcopal title which took its name after the village of Kilmacduagh in County Galway, Ireland. In both the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, the title is now united with other bishoprics. Histo ...

, died 1204. Ó Ruaidín (Rooane, Ruane, Rowan) was the third member of his family to serve as

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of Kilmacduagh, and the last. His family was one of two apparently unrelated families, based in what would become

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and

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, respectively. The Galway family was of the Ui Maine. He was elected before 5 May 1248 and received possession of the temporalities after that date. He died before 10 November 1253. He was also known as Gillebertus or Gilbert, a Latinisation of his forename.

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* ''The Surnames of Ireland'',

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, 1978.

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* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/ * http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID= Christian clergy from County Galway 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Bishops of Kilmacduagh {{Medieval-bishop-stub

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