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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tighernach O'Braein (252 words) |
 | Irish annalist and Abbot of Roscommon and Clonmacnoise, died 1088. |
| His "Annals" (among the earliest of Irish annals) are of the greatest value to the historian of Ireland because of the author's attempt to synchronize Irish events with those of the rest of Europe from the earliest times to his own day. |
| But his sources for the Irish portions of the "Annals" are not now discoverable because of the loss of the Irish manuscripts from which he drew his information. |
| magoo.com: Hugh McGoughs in History by Hugh McGough (15198 words) |
| Irish Christian Names—Boys lists Aidan, Aodán, Aodhán, and Aodhagán as different spellings of the same name and says that they are all equivalent to the English Hugh, as is Aodh, which is listed separately. |
| Eochaidh Doimhlen was a son of Cairbre Liffeachair, Irish Kings #117, a grandson of Cormac MacArt, Irish Kings #115, and a brother of Fiacha Sraibhtine, Irish Kings #120. |
| Living with him was his wife, age 40, born in Minnesota to Irish parents, mother of four children, all of whom were living in the family home and all of whom were born in Minnesota: John R., age 13; Marie, age 11; Hugh E., age 10; and William A., age 8. |
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