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Mauricius Ó Leaáin was
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 ...
, Ireland, from 1254 to 1284. Ó Leaáin (O'Leane, Lane, Linnane) is associated with the
Oranmore Oranmore ( or ) is a town in County Galway, Ireland, east of Galway city on an inlet of Galway Bay. At the 2022 census, Oranmore had a population of 5,819. The town is in a civil parish of the same name. Etymology Oranmore is the anglicisat ...
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Clarenbridge Clarinbridge or Clarenbridge () is a village in south County Galway, Ireland. It is on the mouth of the Clarin River at the end of Dunbulcaun Bay, which is the easternmost part of Galway Bay. The village is 13 km south-east of Galway cit ...
area of
County Galway County Galway ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 20 ...
. He was the first of three men of the surname to become bishop of
Kilmacduagh Kilmacduagh () is a small village in south County Galway, Ireland, near Gort. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name, in Kiltartan barony. It is the site of Kilmacduagh monastery, seat of a diocese of the same name. Th ...
. Ó Leaáin was elected before 15 May 1254 and received possession of the temporalities after that date. He died before 16 January 1284.


See also

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Seoán Ó Leaáin Seoán Ó Leaáin, Bishop of Clonfert, 1322–1336. Ó Leaáin appears to have been a member of the same family as Mauricius Ó Leaáin (Bishop of Kilmacduagh 1254–1284), Nicol Ó Leaáin, (ditto, 1358–1393) and Gregorius Ó Leaáin (1394– ...
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Bishop of Clonfert The Bishop of Clonfert () is an episcopal title which takes its name after the village of Clonfert in County Galway, Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church it remains as a separate title; but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with oth ...
, 1322–1336. *
Nicol Ó Leaáin Nicol Ó Leaáin, Bishop of Kilmacduagh 1358–1393. Ó Leaáin (O'Leane, Lane, Linnane) is associated with the Oranmore- Clarenbridge are of County Galway. Ó Leaáin was appointed 16 November 1358 and consecrated in 1360. He died before October ...
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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 ...
1358–1393. *
Gregorius Ó Leaáin Nicol Ó Leaáin, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, from 1394 to 1397. Ó Leaáin (O'Leane, Lane, Linnane) is associated with the Oranmore-Clarenbridge area of County Galway. Ó Leaáin was appointed 14 October 1393 and consecrated c. 1394; confirmed bisho ...
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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 ...
, 1394–1397.


References

* ''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. Christian clergy from County Galway 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland People from Oranmore Bishops of Kilmacduagh {{Medieval-bishop-stub