Muirgheas mac Pháidín Ó Maolconaire
Muirgheas mac Pháidín Ó Maolconaire, Gaelic-Irish scribe, died 1543. He was a native of Cluain Plocáin (now Ballymulconry), parish of Kiltrustan, County Roscommon. It lies close to an inlet of the river Shannon, north of Strokestown.

Ó Maolconaire wrote the Book of Fenagh in 1516/17, at Fenagh Abbey, County Leitrim. He prepared an abbreviated version in 1535, now BL Cotton Vespasian MS E II. He also wrote the vellum manuscript known as Leabhar gabhála, or Leabhar Bhaile Uí Mhaoilchonaire do sgríobh Muirghios mac Paídín Uí Mhaoilchonaire as Liobhar na hUidhre. An incomplete version survives as RIA MS D iv 3

He is sometimes confused with his great-grandson, Muiris mac Torna Ó Maolconaire (died 1645).

Family tree:An Sliocht Pháidín

   Paidín mac Lochlainn meic Maelsechlainn Ó Maolconaire, d. 1506 (a quo Sliocht Pháidín)
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   Lochlainn                      Muirgheas mac Pháidín Ó Maolconaire, d. 1543. 
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   Séan Ruadh, d. 1589.           |           |
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   Lochlainn                      |           |              | 
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   |                              Torna       Moileachlain   Fláithrí, Archbishop of Tuam, 1560–1629
   Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire  |
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                                  Muiris, d. 1645.

Sources
 Muirgheas Ó Maolconaire of Cluain Plocáin: an early sixteenth-century Connacht scribe at work, Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, Studia Hibernica 35 (2008–09), pp. 17–43.
 Muiris Ó Maolconaire, in Dictionary of Irish biography (9 vols, Cambridge, 2009)
 The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century, p. 55, 91, 257, 262-3, Bernadette Cunningham, Four Courts Press, 2010. .

External links
 http://www.fenagh.com/history/the-book-of-fenagh/

Irish scribes
16th-century Irish historians
16th-century Irish writers
1543 deaths
16th-century Irish-language poets
16th-century Irish poets
Year of birth unknown
Scholars and academics from County Roscommon
People from Strokestown
Writers from County Roscommon