Mac Aodhagáin (Giolla na Naomh)

  • fl. 15th century
  • scribes, jurists
Irish scribe.
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Kelly, Fergus, The MacEgan legal treatise, Early Irish Law Series, 8, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies, 2020.  
abstract:
This treatise is attributed to Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin (MacEgan), chief judge of the province of Connacht, who died in battle in 1309 alongside his king Aodh Ó Conchobhair (O'Conor). It is of special importance as it provides a professional lawyer's account of Irish ‘Brehon’ law in the period after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. The castle photographed here  [on the cover] is Redwood (Coillte Ruadha), Co. Tipperary, occupied from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries by descendants of Giolla na Naomh.
Kelly, Fergus, “Mac Aodhagáin, Giolla na Naomh”, James McGuire [ed.], and James Quinn [ed.], Dictionary of Irish biography, online ed., Online: Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, 2009. URL: <https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a5812>.
Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>. 
comments: General editors include Lawrence Goldman, et al.
Kelly, Fergus, “Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin: a thirteenth-century legal innovator”, in: Desmond Greer, and Norma Dawsom (eds), Mysteries and solutions in Irish legal history, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 1–14.
scribes:Mac Aodhagáin (Giolla na Naomh)Ó Cléirigh (Seaán Buidhe)patron:Butler (Edmund MacRichard)