Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh

Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh, Irish poet, fl. 1586.

A member of the Ó Cobhthaigh clan of poets from County Westmeath. He is known as the author of six extant poems:

• - Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean
• - Dlighidh liaigh leigheas a charad, one hundred and forty verses, (edited by Lambert McKenna in 1949)
• - Mairg as dáileamh don digh bhróin, on the death of Garret Nugent, Baron of Delvin (NLI MS G 992 (Nugent Manuscript) f.33v)
• - Do-ní clú áit oighreachda one hundred and twenty-four verses on William Nugent (MS G 992, f.34v)
• - Geall re hairlachd ainm barúin on the death of Christopher Nugent, 14th Baron Delvin (MS G 992, f. 35v)
• - Séd fine teisd Thoirrdhealbhaigh (edited by Ó Cróinín)

Other poems by him may yet survive but cannot now be ascribed.

References

• Some Irish bardic poems lxxxx, Lambert McKenna, Studies 38 (1949), 183-8.
• A poem to Toirdhealbhach Luinneach Ó Néill, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Éigse 16/1 (1975-6), 50-66.
• The Tinnakill dunaire, Anne Sullivan, Celtica 11, (1976), 214-28.
• A poem to Aodh Buidhe and Alasdar Mac Domhnaill of Tinnakill, Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, Ossory, Laois and Leinster 2 (2006)
• Ó Cobhthaigh family, pp.435-436, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004.