Morgallion

{{Short description|Barony in County Meath, Ireland}}

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Morgallion ({{Langx|ga|Machaire Gaileang}}, "plain of the Gailenga") is one of the baronies that comprise county Meath, Ireland.{{cite web | author= Hugh McGough | title=Gailenga Mora | work=Mughdhorna | url=http://www.magoo.com/hugh/mughdhorna.html | accessdate= 2007-08-22}}{{cite web | title=Irish local names explained | work=Library Ireland | url=http://www.booksulster.com/library/plnm/placenamesM.php | accessdate=2007-08-22 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070627165233/http://www.booksulster.com/library/plnm/placenamesM.php |archivedate = 2007-06-27}}

In 1172 King Henry II of England granted the Lordship of Meath to Hugh de Lacy to hold as King Murrough O Melaghlin held it. Once established de Lacy proceeded to divide up his newly acquired territory into feudal grants to his chief followers. He granted the territory of the Gaileanga-Mor sept (the lands of Magherigalon, later to be known as the Barony of Morgallion) to Gilbert de Angulo, who had arrived from Wales in 1171.{{cite web |title=Gilbert de Angulo| work= The History of the Nangle Family| url= http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cliffs/4019/page1.html| accessdate=2007-08-22|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023143042/http://geocities.com/Heartland/Cliffs/4019/page1.html|archivedate=2009-10-23}} The caput of the barony was at Nobber where de Angulo constructed a Motte close to the site of an earlier ecclesiastical site.{{cite web | author= Lt Col Frank Nangle | title= History of the Barons of Navan| work=A Short History of the Nangle Family | url= http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cliffs/4019/page15.htm| accessdate=2007-08-22|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023142128/http://geocities.com/Heartland/Cliffs/4019/page15.htm|archivedate=2009-10-23}}{{cite web | title=Meath | year=1837 | work=Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland | url=http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/meath/comeath.htm | accessdate=2007-08-22 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070819190959/http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/meath/comeath.htm|archivedate = 2007-08-19}}