He is cited as the father of the founder of the church, Brandubh of Tynagh.
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Paul Keating, the former prime minister of Australia, visited Tynagh in 1992 while tracing his ancestry, and found that he was related to a Paul Molloy and Thomas Donnellan from Tynagh.
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The grandfather (Michael Lyons) of another past Prime minister of Australia, Joseph Lyons, emigrated to Australia from Tynagh.