Énri Ó Connmhaigh
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Énri Ó Connmhaigh, Bishop of Clonfert and Bishop of Kilmacduagh
Bishop of Kilmacduagh
The Bishop of Kilmacduagh was an episcopal title which took its name after the village of Kilmacduagh in County Galway, Ireland. In both the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, the title is now united with other bishoprics.-History:...

, fl. 1405.

Bishop Ó Connmhaigh was one of at least two bearers of the surname (now rendered as Conway
Conway
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 to hold this office. He was succeeded by a Seaán Ó Connmhaigh
Seaán Ó Connmhaigh
Seaán Ó Connmhaigh, Bishop of Clonfert and Bishop of Kilmacduagh, 1419-1441.Bishop Ó Connmhaigh was one of at least two bearers of the surname Seaán Ó Connmhaigh, Bishop of Clonfert and Bishop of Kilmacduagh, 1419-1441.Bishop Ó Connmhaigh was one of at least two bearers of the surname Seaán Ó...

, who became bishop in 1441. An apparent kinsman
Kinsman
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, Máel Muire Ó Connaig
Máel Muire Ó Connaig
Máel Muire Ó Connaig, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, died 1224.Máel Muire Ó Connaig may have been the first of a number of a number of members of the same family who occupied the see. Énri Ó Connmhaigh Máel Muire Ó Connaig, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, died 1224.Máel Muire Ó Connaig may have been the first of a...

, who held the office from may have been a relative
Kinship
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 who bore an earlier version of the surname.

Ó Connmhaigh, originally bishop of Clonfert, was translated from that diocese
Diocese
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 to Kilmacduagh
Kilmacduagh
Kilmacduagh is a small village in south County Galway, near Gort, in Ireland. It is best known for Kilmacduagh monastery, seat of the Diocese of that name. The diocese is now part of the Diocese of Galway and Kilmacduagh in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe in...

 on 11 March 1405. He succeeded Gregorius Ó Leaáin
Gregorius Ó Leaáin
Nicol Ó Leaáin, Bishop of Kilmacduagh 1394-1397. Ó Leaáin is associated with the Oranmore-Clarenbridge area of County Galway....

, whose office was vacant from his death in 1397 till Énri was appointed in 1405. He in turn was aucceded at some unknown date by Dionysius (d.1410).
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