Muirgheas mac Pháidín Ó Maolconaire,

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- Irish

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, died 1543. He was a native of Cluain Plocáin (now Ballymulconry), parish of Kiltrustan,

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. It lies close to an inlet of the river Shannon, north of

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. Ó Maolconaire wrote the

Book of Fenagh The ''Book of Fenagh'' () is a manuscript of prose and poetry written in Classical Irish by Muirgheas mac Pháidín Ó Maolconaire in the monastery at Fenagh, West Breifne (modern-day County Leitrim). It was commissioned by Tadhg Ó Rodaighe, ...

in 1516/17, at Fenagh Abbey,

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. He prepared an

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version in 1535, now BL Cotton Vespasian MS E II. He also wrote the

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manuscript known as ''Leabhar gabhála'', or ''Leabhar Bhaile Uí Mhaoilchonaire do sgríobh Muirghios mac Paídín Uí Mhaoilchonaire as Liobhar na hUidhre''. An incomplete version survives as RIA MS D iv 3 He is sometimes confused with his great-grandson, Muiris mac Torna Ó Maolconaire (died 1645).

Family tree:An Sliocht Pháidín

Paidín mac Lochlainn meic Maelsechlainn Ó Maolconaire, d. 1506 (a quo Sliocht Pháidín) , , _______________________________ , , , , Lochlainn Muirgheas mac Pháidín Ó Maolconaire, d. 1543. , , , , _____________ Séan Ruadh, d. 1589. , , , , , , Eóluis ?________________ Lochlainn , , , , , , , , Torna Moileachlain Fláithrí,

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, 1560–1629 Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire , , Muiris, d. 1645.

Sources

* ''Muirgheas Ó Maolconaire of Cluain Plocáin: an early sixteenth-century Connacht scribe at work'', Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, ''Studia Hibernica'' 35 (2008–09), pp. 17–43. * ''Muiris Ó Maolconaire'', in ''Dictionary of Irish biography'' (9 vols, Cambridge, 2009) * ''The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century,'' p. 55, 91, 257, 262-3, Bernadette Cunningham, Four Courts Press, 2010. .

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