Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (c. 1550–1600) was an Irish poet. Reputedly from

Duniry Duniry () is a townland, with a small village centre, between Tynagh and Abbey, in County Galway, Ireland. Nearby is the townland of Limehill, the south of which has a bog. Duniry is in a civil parish of the same name. Duniry's most noted lan ...

, he was of the

Mac Aodhagáin Mac Aodhagáin ( English: ''Egan'' or ''Keegan''), is an Irish Gaelic clan of Brehons who were hereditary lawyers - firstly to the Ó Conchobhair Kings of Connacht, and later to the Burkes of Clanricarde. The earliest surviving Irish law ma ...

clan of poets. In his lifetime, his family were keepers of Leabhar Breac. His poems were edited by

Lambert McKenna Lambert McKenna S.J. ( (16 July 1870 – 27 December 1956) was a Jesuit priest and writer. He was born Andrew Joseph Lambert McKenna in Clontarf, and studied in Europe. He collected and edited religious and folk poetry in the Irish language. ...

in 1939.

References

(ed.) (1939) ''Aithdioghluim Dána'', Dublin, Irish Texts Society. 1550s births 1600 deaths Writers from County Galway 16th-century Irish-language poets People of Elizabethan Ireland {{Ireland-poet-stub