 On 30 March 1364 Dúghall was granted a safe-conduct by the English crown to come study at the University of Oxford for two years; it was later related in a document dating to June 1380 that he had studied both canon law and Roman law for three years.Dúghall is found holding the parish church of Kilmore on 12 October 1371; this church was in the patronage of John Gallda.As there was a perpetual vicar at the time, Kilmore must have been held without cure, i.e.