Petrus Ua Mórda
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Petrus Ua Mórda | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Clonfert | |
| Province | Tuam |
| Diocese | Clonfert |
| Installed | circa 1150 |
| Term ended | 27 December 1171 |
| Predecessor | Gilla Pátraic Ua hAilchinned |
| Successor | Máel Ísu Mac in Baird |
Petrus Ua Mórda (Anglicised: Peter O'Mordha, (O')More, or (O')Moore) was Bishop of Clonfert from circa 1150 to 1171.
He appears to have been a member of a family from
Ui Maine
.
He was greatly esteemed as "a divine and learned monk". He drowned in the River Shannon (Irish: Abha na Sionainne), near Port-da-Chaineg, on 27 December 1171.
A Dionysius Ó Mórdha would be Bishop of Clonfert from 1509 to 1534. The surname is nowadays rendered as Ó Mórdha and Moore.
References
- Part 27 of Annals of the Four Masters
- Part 719 of The Annals of Ulster
- Cotton, Henry (1850). The Province of Connaught. Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Vol. 4. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. pp. 161–162.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 339. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- MacLysaght, Edward (1978). The Surnames of Ireland.
- Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1984). Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II. New History of Ireland. Vol. XI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 324. ISBN 0-19-821745-5.
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