Conchobar Mac Con Rí
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Based on earlier accounts, James HardimanJames Hardiman
James Hardiman , also known as Séamus Ó hArgadáin, was a librarian at Queen's College, Galway. The university library now bears his name...
relates that:
"This year (1580) Conchubhar Mac-an-Righ, alias Connor King, an inhabitant of ArranIsle of ArranArran or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, and with an area of is the seventh largest Scottish island. It is in the unitary council area of North Ayrshire and the 2001 census had a resident population of 5,058...
, died at the extraordinary age of two hundred and twenty years. He remembered when there were but three stone houses, together with the abbey, the red earl's house and Athy's castle, in Galway; a small chapel where St. Nicholas's church stands, and another on the site of St. Mary's, in the west suburbs. It is also added, that he killed a beef in his own house every Christmas, for one hundred and eighty years."