Maigh Seola

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Maigh Seola was a term used to describe the land along the east shore of Lough Corrib in County Galway, Ireland. It was bounded by the Hy-Many vassal kingdom of Soghain. Its rulers up to the 1220s were the Uí Briuin Seola, a branch of the Connachta who took the surname O'Flaherty. They were based at Loch Cime (later called Lough Hackett until forced into Iar Connacht by the Burkes who led the Norman invasion of Connacht in the 1200s.