Tomás Bacach Ó Dúgáin, Irish

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of Printing press, automatic printing. The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as ...

, fl. 1848-1858. William Mahon devotes pages 636-37 of his article (cited below) on this scribe. He was a descendant of the same family as

Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372) was an Irish Gaelic poet. Background Ó Dubhagáinn was among the first notable members of the bardic family Baile Uí Dhubhagáin (Ballyduggan), near Loughrea, County Galway. He was accorded the rank o ...

(died 1372 and was one of three related scribes living in

Claregalway Baile Chláir or Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe (anglicised Claregalway) is a Gaeltacht village about 10 km north of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland. Claregalway was founded on the banks of the River Clare, hence the derivation of its na ...

in the first half of the 19th century. The others were

Liam Ó Dúgáin Liam Ó Dúgáin was an Irish people, Irish scribe who flourished in the mid-19th century. A native of Claregalway, Ó Dúgáin was a relation of Tomás Bacach Ó Dúgáin and Maolsheachlainn Ó Dúgáin, all of the same parish. His scribal wor ...

and

Maolsheachlainn Ó Dúgáin Maolsheachlainn Ó Dúgáin () was an Irish scribe. Ó Dúgáin was a native of Claregalway and related to Tomás Bacach Ó Dúgáin and Liam Ó Dúgáin Liam Ó Dúgáin was an Irish people, Irish scribe who flourished in the mid-19th c ...

. Their ancestors were hereditary historians, poets, and scribes. The surname is now rendered as Duggan or Dugan.

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 ...

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, 1978. * ''Scríobhaithe Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge I nGaillimh 1700-1900'', William Mahon, in "Galway:History and Society", 1996 Writers from County Galway Irish-language writers Irish scribes {{Ireland-writer-stub