Gilla na Naemh Crom Ó Seachnasaigh (died 1224) was an Irish Chief of the Name.

Ó Seachnasaigh was lord of Cenél Áeda na hEchtge, but is only recorded in the Irish annals towards the end of his era.

Gilla na Naemh Crom Ó Seachnasaigh

1222: Gilla Mo Choinni Ó Cahill, Lord of Kinelea East and West, was slain by Shaughnessy, the son of Gilla na Naemh Crom Ó Seachnasaigh, after having been betrayed by his own people. 1223: Seachnasaigh Ó Seachnasaigh, the son of Gilla na Naemh Ó Seachnasaigh, was slain by the Clann-Cuilen, a deed by which the Bachal mor of St. Colman, of Kilmacduagh was profaned. 1224. Gilla na Naemh Crom Ó Seachnasaigh, Lord of the Western half of Kinelea of Echtge, died.

Gilla na Naemh Crom Ó Seachnasaigh

Only three more Ó Seachnasaigh's would be named in the annals before the 16th century (1240, 1403, 1408), none of them chiefs. Thus the succession of the lordship is unclear till c. 1533.

Gilla na Naemh Crom Ó Seachnasaigh

References

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005C/

John O'Donovan. The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach. Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society. 1844. Pedigree of O'Shaughnessy: pp. 372–91. Galway: History and Society, 1996

Medieval Gaels from Ireland

Irish lords

Nobility from County Galway

Gilla

13th-century Irish people