Conchobar Mac Con Raoí
Conchobar Mac Con Raoí, reputed Supercentenarian, died 1580.
Biography
Based on earlier accounts, James Hardiman relates that:
"This year (1580) Conchubhar Mac-an-Righ, alias Connor King, an inhabitant of Arran, died at the extraordinary age of two hundred and twenty years. He remembered when there were but three stone houses, together with the abbey, the red earl's house and Athy's castle, in Galway; a small chapel where St. Nicholas's church stands, and another on the site of St. Mary's, in the west suburbs. It is also added, that he killed a beef in his own house every Christmas, for one hundred and eighty years."
See also
References
- Iar-Connacht, Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, 1684
- History of Galway, p. 207, James Hardiman, 1820
- An Account of the town of Galway, Paul Walsh, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 1992
- Galway-Gaillimh: a bibliography of the city and county, Mary Kavanagh, Galway County Council, 2000
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