Ó Cormacáin, Gaelic

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-Irish

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 surname

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Overview

Ó Cormacáin was mainly found west of the Shannon

River Shannon

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, in Connacht

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. The Ó Cormacáin ecclesiastical family were based in Síol Anmchadha

Síol Anmchadha

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, in what is now southeast County Galway.

There were at least three, possibly four, septs of this name, located in what is now County Galway

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, County Roscommon

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 and County Down

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The surname is now anglicised as Cormican.

Bears of the name included:

• Ua Corcrain of Clonfert
  Ua Corcrain of Clonfert
  Ua Corcrain of Clonfert, Abbot of Clonfert, died 1095.Ua Corcrain may have been a member of the Ó Cormacáin eccleiastical family based in Síol Anmchadha, in what is now south-east County Galway....
  
  , Bishop of Clonfert, d. 1094.
• Maelcoluim Ua Cormacain
  Maelcoluim Ua Cormacain
  Maelcoluim Ua Cormacain, Abbot of Aran, died 1114.Ua Cormacain is one of the few named successors to Enda of Aran, dying early in the reign of King Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair of Connacht...
  
  , Abbot
  Abbot
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   of Aran
  Aran
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  , died 1114.
• Muirchertach Ua Carmacáin
  Muirchertach Ua Carmacáin
  Muirchertach Ua Carmacáin, Bishop of Clonfert, 1195-1203.Ó Cormacáin was a member of an eccleiastical family based in Síol Anmchadha, in what is now south-east County Galway...
  
  , Bishop of Clonfert, 1195-1203.
• Uilliam Ó Cormacáin
  Uilliam Ó Cormacáin
  Uilliam Ó Cormacáina, Archbishop of Tuam 5 May 1386-1393.Ó Cormacáin was a member of an eccleiastical family based in Síol Anmchadha, in what is now south-east County Galway...
  
  , Archbishop of Tuam
  Archbishop of Tuam
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  , 5 May 1386-1393.
• Henry Ó Cormacáin
  Henry Ó Cormacáin
  Henry Ó Cormacáin, last Abbot of Clonfert, fl. c.1534-c.1567.Ó Cormacáin was a member of an eccleiastical family based in Síol Anmchadha, in what is now south-east County Galway...
  
  , last Abbot of Clonfert, fl. c.1534-c.1567.

See also

• Cormac mac Connmhach
  Cormac mac Connmhach
  Cormac mac Connmhach was a scribe.Cormac mac Connmhach was alive three hundred years after the foundation of Clonfert by Brendan in 553. He is described as an oeconomus, scribe, and wise man and does not seem to have been either bishop or abbot of Clonfert. Of his scriptorial work, nothing is...
  
  , scribe, d. 867.
• Cormac mac Ceithearnach
  Cormac mac Ceithearnach
  -Biography:Cormac is described as the prior of Terryglass and Clonfert, "and the second lord who was over Loch Riach at that time."Loch Riach is a lake at the foot of the Sliabh Eachtaí, located in a territory then called Máenmaige; its ruleing dynasty were the Ui Fiachrach Finn...
  
  , died 881.
• Cormac mac Ciaran
  Cormac mac Ciaran
  Cormac mac Ciaran was Abbot of Tuam.Cormac mac Ciaran is the fourth known abbot of Tuam, since its foundation as a Christian monastery by Jarlath in the 520's, and the first one known by name in over one hundred years....
  
  , Abbot, died 879.

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