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References
- ↑ O'Flaherty, Roderic (1684). A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught (1846 ed.). pp. 362–363.
- ↑ O'Donovan, John (1856). Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters from the Earliest Period to 1616, Vol. II. p. 1019.
- ↑ O'Hart, John (1881). Irish Pedigrees: Or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. p. 354.
- Medieval Ireland: Territorial, Political and Economic Divisions, Paul MacCotter, Four Courts Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84682-098-4
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/connacht.htm#aid
- http://celt.ucc.ie/publishd.html