Families of County Mayo
Croagh Patrick, Erris, Achill, the Búrca lordship and Gráinne Mhaol's pirate seat at Rockfleet.
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Families of County Mayo
Historic ties to Mayo
Families with historic but not core ground in this county.
Champions of County Mayo
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Mayo.
- Michael DavittThe Mayo cottier's son evicted from the family holding in the Famine year of 1850 who in 1879 founded the Irish National Land League at Irishtown, broke the landlord system in Ireland through the Land War of 1879 to 1882, and laid the institutional foundations of the constitutional Irish independence movement.
- Mary RobinsonThe Ballina-born constitutional lawyer who from December 1990 to September 1997 served as the seventh President of Ireland and the first woman to hold the office, and from September 1997 to September 2002 as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the central international human-rights post of the post-Cold-War era.
- Turlough O'CarolanThe Meath-born blind harper of the late-Gaelic Connacht courts whose two hundred and twenty surviving airs, composed between roughly 1690 and his death in 1738 across his itinerant career through the Anglo-Irish and Gaelic gentry houses of Connacht and Ulster, constitute the foundational corpus of the modern Irish harp tradition.