An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1415) was an Irish poet. A member of the

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 ...

bard In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's a ...

ic family, An Clasach is noted in the

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as "a famous poet and man of learning." He had sons

Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh, Irish poet, died 1429. A son of An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1415) and a brother of Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1446), Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bard In Celtic cultures, a bard is an or ...

(died 1429) and

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), who were also poets. The O' Cobhthaigh ( Coffey) were known as the heritary brehon (druidic) family of

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References

* ''Ó Cobhthaigh family'', pp. 435–436, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004. Irish male poets People from County Westmeath 15th-century Irish poets 1415 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Ireland-poet-stub