Feidhlimidh Mág Samhradháin, the First

Feidhlimidh Mág Samhradháin, the First (anglicised Phelim McGovern) was chief of the McGovern Clan and Baron or Lord of Tullyhaw barony, County Cavan from 1478 until his death on 15 February 1495.

His ancestry was Feidhlimidh son of Tomás Óg 'na Fésóige' Mág Samhradháin (d. 1458) son of Fearghal (d. 1393) son of Tomás (d. 1343) son of Brian ‘Breaghach’ Mág Samhradháin (d. 1298). His mother was Raghnailt, daughter of Muircheartach Ó Conchobhair. His father Tomás Óg 'na Fésóige' Mág Samhradháin, the Third, was chief of the clan until his death in 1458. Feidhlimidh was the eldest son and his full brothers were Tomás Óg and Brian. His half-brothers were Domhnall ‘Bernach’ Mág Samhradháin (was succeeded him as chief of the clan on his death in 1495), Maol Sheachlainn Dubh, Brian Caech, Donnchadh (who was Tánaiste of the clan and died in 1486), Toirdealbhach, Tighearnán, Fearghal and Eóghan Mág Samhradháin also a chief of the clan.

On the death of the McGovern chief in 1478, Feidhlimidh’s first cousin Cathal Mág Samhradháin, Feidhlimidh took the chieftaincy and moved to the chief’s residence in Ballymagauran.

On Tuesday 27 September 1485 Ballymagauran was burned during a raid by the O’Reilly clan but the McGoverns retaliated.

The Annals of the Four Masters for 1485 state-

O'Reilly, i.e. Turlough, the son of John, son of Owen, went into Teallach Eachdhach (Tullyhaw), and burned the town of Magauran (i.e. Felim), and the town of his brother Donough. On the following day Magauran, with his kinsmen, went in pursuit of the O’Reilly army, and deprived them of sixteen men, who were killed or taken prisoners, and two hundred horses

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