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Rechtabhra mac Dubbchomar

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Rechtabhra mac Dubbchomar (died 782) was Abbot of Aughrim, County Galway.

Rechtabhra mac Dubbchomar is one of only five known bishops, abbots or Erenaghs of Aughrim. He is the first to be explicitly noted as an abbot, while the previous three were stated as being bishops.

Events during his lifetime included:

Preceded by Bishop or Abbot of Aughrim
746?–782
Succeeded by

References

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  • Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
  • Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
  • Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.
  • Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
  • Lysaght, Eamonn (1978), The Surnames of Ireland. ISBN 0-7165-2278-0, pp. 233–34.