Aedh Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1452) was an
Irish poet.
Ó Cobhthaigh
Ó Cobhthaigh is a Gaels, Gaelic-Irish surname, generally Anglicised as Coffey, Cofer, Coffer, Copher, Caughey, Coffee, Coffie, Coughey, Cauffey, Cauffy, Cauffie, Coffy, Coughay, Coffay, Coffeye, Couhig and many more.
Overview
Ó Cobhthaigh was t ...
was a member of a
hereditary
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bard
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ic family based in what is now
County Westmeath
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. He is recorded as dying of the
plague at his house of
hospitality
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in
Fertullagh.
See also
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An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh
An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1415) was an Irish poet.
A member of the Ó Cobhthaigh bardic family, An Clasach is noted in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "a famous poet and man of learning." He had sons Maeleachlainn Ó Cobht ...
, died 1415.
*
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 famou ...
, died 1446.
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CÃ rn na Marbh
References
* ''Ó Cobhthaigh family'', pp. 435–436, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004.
1452 deaths
People from County Westmeath
15th-century Irish poets
Year of birth unknown
15th-century deaths from plague (disease)
Irish male poets
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