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Edmund Albanach de Burgh
Edmund Albanach de Burgh was the founder of the Mac William Iochtar lordship in north Connacht. After the murder of the 3rd Earl of Ulster in 1333, he seized the de Burgh lands in Mayo and adopted the Gaelic title Mac William Iochtar, the Lower Mac William. His descendants, the Burkes of Mayo, ruled there in Gaelic style until the 16th century.
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