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Clann Cosgraigh or Clann Coscraig was a branch of the Uí Briúin Seóla dynasty and also the name of the district on the eastern side of Lough Corrib, County Galway which they inhabited and ruled prior to the Norman invasion.
The eponym of the lineage was Coscrach Mór mac Duinn, who died in the Battle of Dún Ganiba in 799. Its chiefs were the Meic Áeda (now rendered McHugh or McGagh, via Mac Aodha), who, like the Muintir Murchada, claimed descent from Cenn Fáelad mac Colgan, King of Connacht. Early generations of the lineage competed with the Muintir Murchada and Uí Fiachrach Aidhne for the kingship of South Connacht.
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References
- Duffy, Seán (2005). Mediaeval Ireland: An Encyclopaedia. London, New York: Routledge. pp. 485–6. ISBN 0-415-94052-4.
- Annals of Ulster. p. 799.1.
- O'Flaherty, Roderic (1684). A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught (1846 ed.). Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society. p. 6.
- MacFirbis, Dubhaltach. Leabhar Mór na nGenealach. pp. 201.6 – 202.1.
- Medieval Ireland: Territorial, Political and Economic Divisions, Paul MacCotter, Four Courts Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84682-098-4
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/connacht.htm#aid
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