Fachtna Ó hAllgaith

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Who is Fachtna Ó hAllgaith?

Fachtna Ó hAllgaith, Irish erenagh and benefactor, died 1232.

The Annals of Connacht reference Ó hAllgaith under the year 1232, saying of him:

Fachtna O hAllgaith, coarb of Drumacoo and Official of the Ui Fiachrach, who kept a guest-house and a leper-house and was [a man] of learning and a benefactor of the countryside, rested this year.

Drumacoo is a townland in the parish of Ballinderreen, County Galway, which was then referred to as Uí Fiachrach Aidhne.

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on July 23, 2013

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