Fear Bisigh mac Domhnaill Óig

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title: Fear Bisigh mac Domhnaill Óig
text: Fear Bisigh mac Domhnaill Óig, eponymous ancestor of Clann Mac Fir Bhisigh of Connacht, fl. 11th century. Ó Muraíle believes Fear Bisigh to have been born sometime in the second half of the 11th century. The forename Fear Bisish is very rare:"biseach means increase, growth or improvement and there are several derived senses", while Fr. Patrick Woulfe's interpretation is "man of prosperity." Ó Muraíle suggests that "(a) ... the name many denote 'man of a leap-year', and (b) that Fear Bisigh may b
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