Cú Maighe na nGall Ó Catháin
Cú Maighe na nGall Ó Catháin was a chief of the Uí Catháin of Ciannachta.[1] The family first appears on record in 1138.[2] Cú Maighe was a son of Manus Ó Catháin (died 1260), a man who fell in battle alongside fourteen other members of the Uí Catháin in support of Brian Ó Néill, King of Tír Eoghain (died 1260). Following his father's death, Cú Maighe was made chief of his kindred by Henry de Mandeville, seneschal of Ulster, and thereupon served as an ally to this Anglo-Irish lord. Cú Maighe's son, Diarmait, appears on record in 1312.[3] Cú Maighe's daughter, Áine, married Aonghus Óg Mac Domhnaill (died 1314×1318/c.1330).[4] Cú Maighe's epithet na nGall means "of the foreigners".[5] A heavily restored effigy at Dungiven Priory is sometimes associated with Cú Maighe, although it appears to date to the last quarter of the fifteenth century, and seems to be that of a later member of the kindred: perhaps either Gofraidh (died 1472), Diarmait (died 1484), Gofraidh (died 1492), or Eóin (died 1492).[6]
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