Máel Muire mac Céilechair
Máel Muire ("servant of Mary") mac Céilechair (died 1106) was an Irish cleric of the monastery of Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, and one of the principal scribes of the manuscript Lebor na hUidre. He came from a prominent clerical family with links to Clonmacnoise going back six centuries. He was the son of Céilechar Mugdornach (of the Mugdornai, a people of early Ireland), bishop of Clonmacnoise; son of Conn ma mBocht ("of the poor"), head of the Céli Dé and an anchorite of the same monastery, d.
Also recorded as Mael Muire mac Ceilechair
Máel Muire mac Céilechair
- Died
- 1106
- Occupation
- poet · cleric · scribe
- Known for
- Lebor na hUidre
- Languages
- Middle Irish
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Died in 1106.
The recorded working language is Middle Irish. Places of work recorded in the authority are Clonmacnoise. Works named in the authority record are Lebor na hUidre.
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- 1.R. I. Best and Osborn Bergin (eds.), Lebor na hUidre, Royal Irish Academy, 1929, Introduction, pp. ix-xliv
- 2.Annals of the Four Masters M1106.7
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