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The Ó hUiginn Family of Chaffpool: Learned Tradition and Landholding in Medieval Leyny.
Introduction The history of medieval Leyny in south County Sligo is usually dominated by the story of the O’Haras, the great Gaelic ruling dynasty who controlled the territory for centuries before the Cromwellian conquest. Yet beneath the authority of the O’Hara chiefs existed a wider network of hereditary families who played important political, ecclesiastical and… Continue reading