Magrath Ó Fionnachta

Magrath Ó Fionnachta, Irish musician, died 1361.

Ó Fionnachta was a member of one of several families that claimed descent from the Síol Muireadhaigh dynasty of the Ui Briuin of Connacht. They generally resided along the banks of the River Suck, on the border of what is now County Roscommon and County Galway.

Under the year 1361, The Annals of the Four Masters preserve his obituary:

Magrath Ó Fionnachta, Chief Musician and Tiompanist to the Sil-Murray, died.

The instrument he played was An Tiompan Gàidhealach, not the Timpani.

The surname is now generally rendered as Finnerty.

External links

• http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005D/index.html
• http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm?fuseaction=Go.&UserID=

References

• What was the Tiompán? A problem in ethnohistorical organology. Evidence in Irish literature, Ann Buckley, p. 53-88, Jahrbuch fur Musikalische Volks - un Volkerkunde, ix, 1978.
• Timpán/Tiompán, Ann Buckley, in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, London, 1986
• Musical instruments in Ireland 9th 14th centuries: A review of the organological evidence, Ann Buckley, pp. 13–57, Irish Musical Studies i, Blackrock, County Dublin, 1990
• Music and musicians in medieval Irish society, Ann Buckley, pp. 165–190, Early Music xxviii, no.2, May 2000
• Music in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland, Ann Buckley, pp. 744–813, in A New History of Ireland, volume one, Oxford, 2005.

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Name	O Fionnachta, Magrath
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Date of death	1361
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