Domnall Ó Cuindlis, Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

, died 1342.

Ó Cuindlis is described in the Annals of Lough Ce

Annals of Lough Cé

The Annals of Loch Cé cover events, mainly in Connacht and its neighbouring regions, from 1014 to 1590. It takes its name from Lough Cé in the kingdom of Moylurg - now north County Roscommon - which was the centre of power of the Clan MacDermot...

 as an eminent historian. In 1342, in unknown circumstances, he was killed by the Uí Díarmata

Uí Díarmata

Uí Díarmata was a local kingdom located in what is now north County Galway.-Origins:The ruling dynasty took its name from King Diarmait Finn of Connacht , and the territory in turn was named after them. It seems to have been created by the Uí Briúin in the ninth century during a wave of expansion...

. The latter was the dynastic name of the family of Ó Con Ceanainn, who ruled a district called Ui Diarmata in what is now north-east County Galway

County Galway

County Galway is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the city of Galway. Galway County Council is the local authority for the county. There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county...

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Domnall was probably a member of the same family as Murchadh Ó Cuindlis

Murchadh Ó Cuindlis

Murchadh Ó Cuindlis, Irish scribe, fl. 1398 – 1411.Said to be a native of Bally Lough Deacker in what is now the extreme south of Co. Galway, Ó Cuindlis was one of the scribes of The Book of Lecan under the guidance of Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh, and later An Leabhar Breac at...

 (fl.

Floruit

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 1398-1411), scribe

Scribe

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 of the Book of Lecan and An Leabhar Breac

An Leabhar Breac

Leabhar Breac , now less commonly Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre or possibly erroneously, Leabhar Breac Mic Aodhagáin , is a medieval Irish vellum manuscript containing Middle Irish and Hiberno-Latin writings...

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External links

• http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100010A/index.html