Cu Chonnacht Ó Cianáin

Cú Chonnacht Ó Cianáin, d. 1615, was a rymer or chronicler to Rory Maguire.

He was apparently the first man racked in Ireland, the instrument been used most severely upon him during an interogation into a bungled insurrection in early summer 1615. On 31 July of that year, he and five others were condemned to death in Derry, and is believed to have been hung shortly afterwards.

He is also described as a yeoman of Moygh, a place somewhere between Ballymoney and the Bann, County Antrim.

ources

* "The Learned Family of Ó Cianáin/Keenan", Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in Clougher Record, pp.387-436, 2005.
* "Turas na dTaoiseach nUltach as Éirinn from Ráth Maoláin to Rome: Tadhg O Cianáin’s contemporary narrative of the so-called ‘Flight of the Earls, 1607-8", Nollaig Ó Muraíle(editor), Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2007. ISBN 978-88-901692-1-2