Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte, Irish poet, fl. c. 1601.
A member of the
Ó an Cháintighe
Ó an Cháintighe, an Irish Bardic family of west Cork. The medieval poet Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte was the composer of the following poems:
* ''A shaoghail ón a shaoghail''
* ''Bean dá chumhadh crÃoch Ealla''
* ''Gluais a litir go Lunndain''
...
bardic family, and a relative of
Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte
Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte, Irish poet, fl. 16th century.
Native of Munster, and a member of the Ó an Cháintighe bardic family. His known poems include the following:
* ''A shaoghail ón a shaoghail''
* ''Bean dá chumhadh crÃoch Ealla''
* ' ...
, Tadhg Olltach is probably to be identified with 'Teige on Canty, of Clansheane', mentioned in a fiant of
Elizabeth I dated 14 May 1601, along with his wife, 'Margaret ny Fynan'. Slanshane appears as part of the
Carbery lands of
Mac Carrthaigh Riabhach in an
inquisition of 1636, showing that it compromised the northern part of the parish of
Desertserges,
County Cork.
Tadgh is almost solely known by the poem ''Torchoir ceól Cloinne Cathoil'', a lament for
Conchubhar Mac Conghalaigh
( is an old and famous Irish male name meaning "lover of canines". It is the source of the Irish names Conor, Connor, Connors, Conner, O'Connor, etc. It is a name borne by several figures from Irish history and legend, including:
* Conchobar ...
, harper to
Domhnall Ó Donnabháin, lord of Clann Chathail from 1584 until his death in 1639.
Trivia
Ó an Cháinte's first name, Tadhg means 'poet' or 'philosopher'. Olltach is a
cognomen.
See also
* ''
Torchoir ceól Cloinne Cathoil''
* ''
Uaidhe féin do fhás Iosa'' (attributed)
References
* ''Music has ended:The Death of a Harper'' (1991), Seán Ua SúilleabhAin & Seán Donnelly, ''Celtica'' 22
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People from County Cork
16th-century Irish poets
17th-century Irish poets
People of Elizabethan Ireland
Irish-language poets
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