Gilbert Ó Tigernaig

Gilbert Ó Tigernaig was the Bishop of Annaghdown from 1306 to 1323.

Ó Tigernaig was a native of Carra, County Mayo, his family belonging to those ruling the area, subject to (or descended from) the Uí Fiachrach Muaidhe.^{[citation needed]} The surname is now rendered as "Tierney".^{[citation needed]}

Elected about 1306, Ó Tigernaig had been consecrated a bishop by 15 July 1308, taking control of the temporalities of Annaghdown on 15 July 1308. He also acted as a suffragan bishop in the dioceses of Winchester (1313), Worcester (1313-1314) and Hereford (1315). He died before 16 December 1322, in England, where he had been serving as suffragan in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield.^[1]

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^ Hobhouse, Edmund (1880). William Salt Archaeological Society (ed.). "Bishop Norbury's Register". Collections for a History of Staffordshire. 1. Houghton and Hammond: 243. Retrieved 29 January 2015.

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Preceded by John de Ufford	Bishop of Annaghdown 1306–1323	Succeeded by Jacobus Ó Cethernaig

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[1] Hobhouse, Edmund (1880). William Salt Archaeological Society (ed.). "Bishop Norbury's Register". Collections for a History of Staffordshire. 1. Houghton and Hammond: 243. Retrieved 29 January 2015.

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