Cormac Cruinn Ó Máille, Irish

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 noble

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, died 1384.

Ó Máille was a grandson of Eoghan mac Diarmait Ó Máille, a brother of Domnall Ruadh O Maille

Domnall Ruadh O Maille

Domnall Ruadh Ó Máille, King of Umaill, died 11 November 1337.Ó Máille was a descendant of Maille mac Conall, and was ruler of the territory of Umaill during the 1330's. He is given as a son of Brian mac Domnall Ó Máille and had a brother, Diarmait...

 (died 1337). Cormac was a son of Domnall mac Eoghan, and had brothers Eoghan, Brian, Cormac Buadhach, Ruaibh. Though not a chief himself, Cormac was of the line that provided all subsequent Ó Máille Chiefs of the Name

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.

The Annals of the Four Masters

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 record that "A meeting took place between O'Flaherty

O'Flaherty

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 and O'Malley

O'Malley

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, but a quarrel arose between them, in which Owen O'Malley, Cormac O'Malley (i.e., Cormac Cruinn) and many others besides these, were slain by the people of O'Flaherty."

See also

• Maille mac Conall
  Maille mac Conall
  Maille mac Conall, member of the Ui Maill, ancestor and eponym of the O'Malley family of County Mayo.Maille was a grandson of Cosgrach mac Flannabhra, king of Ui Maill . He had an unnamed brother, from whom the O'Gormghaile family descend...
  
  
• Domnall Ruadh O Maille
  Domnall Ruadh O Maille
  Domnall Ruadh Ó Máille, King of Umaill, died 11 November 1337.Ó Máille was a descendant of Maille mac Conall, and was ruler of the territory of Umaill during the 1330's. He is given as a son of Brian mac Domnall Ó Máille and had a brother, Diarmait...
  
  
• Mael Sechlainn Ó Máille
• Grace O'Malley
  Grace O'Malley
  Gráinne Ní Mháille , Gráinne O'Malley or Grace O'Malley, was Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan and a pirate in 16th century Ireland...
  
  
• Martin O'Malley
  Martin O'Malley
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Reference

• The History of Mayo, Hubert T. Knox
  Hubert T. Knox
  Hubert Thomas Knox , MRIA, FRSAI, was an Irish historian.He was the third son of Charles Knox of Ballinrobe, who would later be High Sheriff of County Mayo in 1860 and was a Colonel in the North Mayo Militia. His great-grandfather was James Cuffe, 1st Baron Tyrawley. His mother was Lady Louisa...
  
  , 1908, p. 389.