- Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh
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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 bardic family. He was killed Edmond Dalton, who had conquered his district.
References
- Ó Cobhthaigh family, pp.435-436, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004.
Categories:- Irish poets
- 1429 deaths
- 15th-century writers
- People from County Westmeath
- Irish writers
- Irish Gaelic poets
- Medieval Gaels
- Medieval Irish writers
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