Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh
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Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh, Irish poet, fl. 1586.
A member of the Ó Cobhthaigh
clan of poets from County Westmeath. He is known as the author of six extant poems:
Other poems by him may yet survive but cannot now be ascribed.
A member of the Ó Cobhthaigh
Ó Cobhthaigh
-Overview:Ó Cobhthaigh was the name of an Irish Brehon family from what is now County Westmeath and County Longford.There were at least three other families of the name, located in the regions of Limerick-Kerry, Down, west Cork, and Galway....
clan of poets from County Westmeath. He is known as the author of six extant poems:
- - Le dís cuirthear clú LaigheanLe dís cuirthear clú LaigheanLe dís cuirthear clú Laighean is a poem found only in the Tinnakill Duanaire on folio 34r. It was composed for the brothers Aodh Buidhe Mac Domhnaill and Alasdar of Tinnakill, Queen's County, by Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh. It dates from about 1570....
- - Dlighidh liaigh leigheas a charad, one hundred and forty verses, (edited by Lambert McKennaLambert McKennaLambert McKenna S.J. was a Jesuit priest and writer.He was born Andrew Joseph Lambert McKenna in Dublin and studied in Europe. He collected and edited religious and folk poetry in the Irish language...
in 1949) - - Mairg as dáileamh don digh bhróin, on the death of Garret Nugent, Baron of Delvin (NLI MS G 992 (Nugent Manuscript) f.33v)
- - Do-ní clú áit oighreachda one hundred and twenty-four verses on William Nugent (MS G 992, f.34v)
- - Geall re hairlachd ainm barúin on the death of Christopher Nugent, 14th Baron Delvin (MS G 992, f. 35v)
- - Séd fine teisd Thoirrdhealbhaigh (edited by Ó Cróinín)
Other poems by him may yet survive but cannot now be ascribed.