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Connaght, was the first written in that Roll and first payed and dieted or sett to super'. During the feast, Margaret stood on the battlements of the church 'clad in cloath of gold' while Calbhach was on horseback below ensuring that 'all things might be done orderly'. Margaret is also said to have fostered or nursed two orphans during this feast. The second feast that year is said to have been just as impressive as the first.
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in 1445. Margaret joined a group of Irish and Anglo-Irish aristocrats on this journey that included Mac
Diarmada, chief of Moylurgh (Co. Roscommon), Mac Eochacáin, chief of Cemél Fiachach, O'Driscoll Óg, chief of Collybeg (south-west Co. Cork), Gerald Fitzgerald and Eibhlin fitz Thomas Ó Fearghail.
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Margaret found in a seventeenth-century translation of a set of Irish annals, Duald Mac Firbis provides more elaborate details as to the events of these two feasts. According to Mac Firbis, 2,700 people were entertained at the first feast and 'Maelyn O'Maelconry one of the chiefe
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on 25 March 1433 'A general invitation was issued by
Mairgreg daughter of O Cerbaill about the feast of Dasinchell this year at Killeigh, and about the first festival of Mary in the autumn at Rathangan for the people who were not with her at Killeigh, so that she satisfied fully all the suppliants
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On her way back from
Santiago de Compostela in 1445, Margaret also managed to negotiate a prisoner exchange between the Gaelic Irish and their English neighbors in Meath. A number of Gaelic Irish, including Mac Eochacáin of Cenél Fiachach, his son and Art Ó Máelachain's grandson, had been taken
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Fionnghuala married twice. Her first marriage was to Niall Garbh Ă“ Domhnaill (d. 1439), king of TĂr Conaill and her second marriage was to Aodh Buidhe Ă“ NĂ©ill (d. 1444). A poem written c. 1425 celebrating Fionnghuala's second marriage to Aodh includes references to both her and her
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Margaret O'Carroll was famed for her hospitality. She was especially remembered for providing two magnificent feasts in 1433: one on 26 March at
Killeigh, Offaly and one on 15 August at Rathangan, Kildare. According to the
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Margaret O'Carrolll had a total of seven children: 5 sons (Conn (d. 1440), Cathal (d. 1448), Feidhlim (d. 1451), Brian (d. 1452) and Tadhg (d. 1471)) and 2 daughters: MĂłr (d. 1452) and
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Only Margaret, Mac Diarmada and Mac Eochacáin made the trip safely. Both Gerald Fitzgerald and Eibhlin fitz Thomas Ó Gearghail died in Spain and O'Driscoll Óg died at sea on the journey back to Ireland.
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