Seán Ó Catháin ( fl. 1726) was an Irish

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...

. Little is known of Ó Catháin. He transcribed '' Trí Biorghaoithe an Bháis'' – by

Seathrún Céitinn Geoffrey Keating ( ga, Seathrún Céitinn; c. 1569 – c. 1644) was a 17th-century historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill. He became an Irish Catholic priest and a ...

– and '' Beatha Chaitríona'', "air forálamh an óig úasail róonoraigh fhíorchartannaidh .i. Fhroinnsais Óig a Blake mhic Tomais oíghreadh na bForbach" (for Francis Óg son of Thomas Blake of Furbogh, County Galway) in 1726, now

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Egerton MS 184. He wrote RIA 23 G 4, containing history, genealogy and poetry, sometime between 1722 and 1729.

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* ''Scríobhaithe Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge I nGaillimh 1700–1900'', William Mahon, in "Galway:History and Society", 1996 Irish scribes Writers from County Galway 18th-century Irish writers 18th-century Irish male writers Place of birth unknown Place of death unknown Irish-language writers {{Ireland-writer-stub

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