# Heber MacMahon > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Heber_MacMahon > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Heber_MacMahon.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_MacMahon > Source revision: 1347794580 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Irish bishop (1600–1650) Heber MacMahon Bishop of Clogher Church Roman Catholic Church See Clogher In office 1643–1650 Predecessor Eugene Matthews Successor Patrick Duffy Previous post Bishop of Down and Connor Personal details Born 1600 Inniskeen Died July or September 1650 **Heber MacMahon** ([Irish](/source/Irish_language) *Éimhear Mac Mathúna*) (1600 – 1650) was [bishop of Clogher](/source/Bishop_of_Clogher) and general in Ulster.[1] He was educated at the Irish college, [Douay](/source/Douai), and at [Louvain](/source/Leuven), and ordained a Roman Catholic priest 1625. He became bishop of Clogher in 1643 and a leader among the confederate Catholics. As a general of the Ulster army, he fought [Oliver Cromwell](/source/Oliver_Cromwell) at the [Battle of Scarrifholis](/source/Battle_of_Scarrifholis) in 1650. He was defeated, taken prisoner and executed the same year.[2] ## Biography MacMahon was born in 1600 on the island of [Inniskeen](/source/Inniskeen) in what is now [County Monaghan](/source/County_Monaghan). He received his early education at the Franciscan Monastery in [Kiltybegs](/source/Kiltybegs), Monaghan. He went to the [Irish College at Douai](/source/Irish_College%2C_Douai) in 1617 and later to [Leuven](/source/Leuven).[3] He was ordained a priest in 1625 and appointed as [Vicar apostolic](/source/Vicar_apostolic) of the [Diocese of Clogher](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Clogher) by a [papal brief](/source/Papal_brief) on 17 November 1627.[4] Fifteen years later, he was appointed [Bishop of Down and Connor](/source/Bishop_of_Down_and_Connor) on 10 March 1642.[4] He played a prominent part in the [Irish Catholic Confederation](/source/Confederate_Ireland) in [Kilkenny](/source/Kilkenny). He was appointed [Bishop of Clogher](/source/Bishop_of_Clogher) in June 1643.[4] He worked closely with [Owen Roe O'Neill](/source/Owen_Roe_O'Neill) throughout the 1640s and liaised with [Giovanni Battista Rinuccini](/source/Giovanni_Battista_Rinuccini) after his arrival in 1645. Following the mysterious death of Owen Roe O'Neill on 6 November 1649, the leadership of the Ulster army of 5,000 foot soldiers and 600 cavalry was entrusted to Bishop McMahon by the [Earl of Ormonde](/source/James_Butler%2C_1st_Duke_of_Ormonde). In 1650 McMahon took Dungiven and massacred the Protestant inhabitants, but the Irish forces were then routed by Cromwell’s army at the [battle of Scarrifholis](/source/Battle_of_Scarrifholis), near [Letterkenny](/source/Letterkenny), in June of that same year. Although he escaped, he was captured, hanged and beheaded by [Sir Charles Coote](/source/Charles_Coote%2C_1st_Earl_of_Mountrath) in Enniskillen. He died in office in July[5] or 17 September 1650.[4] After his death, Philip Crolly was appointed vicar apostolic to administer the diocese of Clogher in 1651, and the next bishop was [Patrick Duffy](/source/Patrick_Duffy_(bishop)) who was appointed in 1671.[4] ## See also - [Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Clogher) ## Notes 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Also known as **Ever MacMahon** and **Emer MacMahon** and also latinised as **Emerus Matthaeus**. (Lee p. 822) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Lee p. 822 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). ["Heber MacMahon"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Heber_MacMahon). *[Catholic Encyclopedia](/source/Catholic_Encyclopedia)*. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-HBOBC_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-HBOBC_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-HBOBC_4-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-HBOBC_4-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-HBOBC_4-4) Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). *Handbook of British Chronology* (Third ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 418. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-521-56350-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-56350-X). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Bishop Heber MacMahon (McMahon)"](http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmcma.html). *[Catholic-Hierarchy](/source/Catholic-Hierarchy)*. ## References - [Lee, Sidney](/source/Sidney_Lee) (1903), [Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography) [Index and Epitome](https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati00leesuoft), [p. 882](https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati00leesuoft#page/822/mode/1up) (also main entry DNB xxxv. 225). ## External links - [https://archive.org/stream/irishecclesiast02unkngoog#page/n498/mode/2up](https://archive.org/stream/irishecclesiast02unkngoog#page/n498/mode/2up) Catholic Church titles Preceded by Eugene Matthews (1609–1611) Patrick Quinn (vicar apostolic, appointed 1622) Bishop of Clogher 1643–1650 (vicar apostolic, 1627–1642) Succeeded by Philip Crolly (vicar apostolic, appointed 1651) Patrick Duffy (1671–1675) v t e Roman Catholic Bishops of Down and Connor Robert Blyth Eugene Magennis Miler Magrath Donat O'Gallagher Conor O'Devany Patrick Hanratty Edmund Dungan Hugh Magennis Heber MacMahon Arthur Magennis Michael O'Beirn Daniel Mackey Terence O'Donnelly James O'Shiel John Armstrong Francis Stuart Edmund O'Doran Theophilus MacCartan Hugh MacMullan Patrick MacMullan William Crolly Cornelius Denvir Patrick Dorrian Patrick MacAlister Henry Henry John Tohill Joseph MacRory Daniel Mageean William Philbin Cahal Daly Patrick Walsh Noel Treanor [Portals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals): - [Biography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Biography) - [Catholicism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Catholicism) - [Ireland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Ireland) - [History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:History) Authority control databases International VIAF People Ireland --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Heber MacMahon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_MacMahon) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_MacMahon?action=history)). 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