Fachtna Ó hAllgaith
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Fachtna Ó hAllgaith (died 1232) was an Irish erenagh and benefactor.
The Annals of Connacht reference Ó hAllgaith under the year 1232, saying of him:
Fachtna O hAllgaith, coarb of Drumacoo and official of the Ui Fiachrach, who kept a guest-house and a leper-house and was [a man] of learning and a benefactor of the countryside, rested this year.
Drumacoo is an ecclesiastical site in the parish of Ballinderreen, County Galway, which was then referred to as Uí Fiachrach Aidhne.
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- Medieval Gaels from Ireland
- Irish humanitarians
- People from County Galway
- 13th-century Irish people
- 1232 deaths