Edmond Albanach de Burgh

Edmond Albanach de Burgh (died 1375), called the Scot for the years he spent hostage there, was a son of William Liath de Burgh and founder of the Mayo Bourkes, the Mac William Íochtar. In 1332 his cousin the Earl of Ulster starved his elder brother Walter to death in prison; Edmond made himself lord of Mayo, and the earl was murdered the next year in revenge, leaving only an infant daughter.

In April 1338 Edmond and his brother Raymond seized their rival cousin Edmond de Burgh, who was later thrown into Lough Mask in a sack of stones; the killing ended English overlordship of Connacht.

The brothers hid on islands off the western coast until Edward III pardoned them in 1340. Edmond died in 1375 the strongest lord west of the Shannon.