Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl

Floruit

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. 1579–1590) was an Irish historian.

A member of the Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin

Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin

The Ó Duibhgeannáin clan were a family of professional historians in medieval and early modern Ireland.They originated in the kingdom of Annaly on the east bank of the Shannon and later migrated into Connacht. Writing in 1921 the Irish historian, Fr...

 and a hereditary historian, Pilip was a resident of Cloonybrien, County Roscommon

County Roscommon

County Roscommon is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the town of Roscommon. Roscommon County Council is the local authority for the county...

. With Brian na Carriag MacDermot and others he compiled the Annals of Lough Cé

Annals of Lough Cé

The Annals of Loch Cé cover events, mainly in Connacht and its neighbouring regions, from 1014 to 1590. It takes its name from Lough Cé in the kingdom of Moylurg - now north County Roscommon - which was the centre of power of the Clan MacDermot...

 and various other manuscripts, including Miscellanea Historica Hibernica

Miscellanea Historica Hibernica

Miscellanea Historica Hibernica, also known as MS G1, is a manuscript miscellany, a miniature vellum commonplace book.Compiled by Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin during the years 1579 - 1584, it is described on the front endpaper as Miscellanea Historica Hibernica in a later hand...

Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh

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 suggested that he was a son of Fer Caogad mac Ferghal Ó Duibhgeannáin, who died at Cloonybried in 1581.

Sources

• Irish Medieval Learning, by Fr. Paul Walsh
  Fr. Paul Walsh
  Father Paul Walsh , was an Irish priest and historian.-Life and career:Walsh was the eldest of the five sons and three daughters born to Michael Walsh and Brigid Gallagher of Ballina , in the parish of Mullingar, County Westmeath. Educated locally, he spent a year at Mullingar's Christian Brothers...
  
  , 1918, pp. 18–19.
• Rudimenta Physionomiae, by Gearóid mac Niocaill
  Gearóid Mac Niocaill
  Gearóid Mac Niocaill was one of the foremost twentieth-century scholars and interpreters of late medieval Irish tracts and professor of history at NUI Galway from 1977 until his retirement in 1997. His publication of key late medieval manuscripts in Latin and, especially, Irish restricted his...
  
  , in Celtica vi (1963), pp. 271–77.
• A world of wonders:marvels and prodigies in the diocese of Elphin
  Elphin
  In Welsh mythology, Elffin ap Gwyddno was a son of Gwyddno Garanhir, 'Lord of Ceredigion'. The earliest example of the name occurs in several of the mythological poems attributed to Taliesin in the Book of Taliesin. The date of their composition is uncertain but probably predates the Norman...
  
  , 1588, pp. 134–54, in Stories from Gaelic Ireland:Microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals, by Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2003,

ISBN 1 85182 7471.