Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh
Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1446) was an Irish poet.
A brother of Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1429) and a son of An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1415), Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family. However, he was also famous as a soldier. One of his surviving poems, T'aire riot, a mheic Mhurchaidh – addressed to the Mac Murchadha Caomhánach – urges the men of Leinster to resist the Anglo-Irish.
He was killed, along with his two sons, on the island of Cróinis on Lough Ennell, by Art and the sons of Fiacha .
References[]
- Ó Cobhthaigh family, pp. 435–436, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004.
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