Aed mac Donn Ó Sochlachain (died 1226) was

Erenagh The medieval Irish office of erenagh (Old Irish: ''airchinnech'', Modern Irish: ''airchinneach'', Latin: '' princeps'') was responsible for receiving parish revenue from tithes and rents, building and maintaining church property and overseeing t ...

of Cong and an Irish musician. Ó Sochlachain was one of the earliest Irish musicians described in the extant Irish annals, denoting the respect the profession had acquired in recent generations. The

Annals of Connacht The ''Annals of Connacht'' (), covering the years 1224 to 1544, are drawn from a manuscript compiled in the 15th and 16th centuries by at least three scribes, all believed to be members of the Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin. The early sections, commenc ...

describe him as the: ''erenagh of Cong, a man eminent for

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and for the right tuning of

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

s and for having made an instrument for himself which none had made before, distinguished also in every art such as poetry,

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and writing and in every skilled occupation, died this year.''

Bibliography

* Ann Buckley: "Musical Instruments in Ireland from the Ninth to the Fourteenth Centuries: A Review of the Organological Evidence", in: Gerald Gillen and Harry White (eds), ''Irish Musical Studies'', vol. 1: ''Musicology in Ireland'' (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990), pp. 13–57. * A. Buckley: "Music and Musicians in Medieval Irish Society" in: ''Early Music'' vol. 28, no. 2 (May 2000), pp. 165–190. * A. Buckley: "Music in Ireland to c.1500", in: ''A New History of Ireland'', vol. 1, ed. by F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, W. E. Vaughan, A. Cosgrove, J. R. Hill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 744–813.

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* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100011/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:O Sochlachain, Aed mac Donn Year of birth unknown 1226 deaths 13th-century Irish poets 13th-century Irish writers Irish inventors Irish male poets Irish scribes Irish-language writers Medieval European scribes Musicians from County Galway Musicians from County Mayo

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