Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean
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Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean is a fourteenth century Irish poem.

It is an address to Aedh mac Eoghan Ua Conchobair
Aedh mac Eoghan Ua Conchobair
Aedh mac Eoghan Ó Conchobair was King of Connacht in Ireland. He is the person addressed in the poem Cóir Connacht ar chath Laighean-References:* Annals of Ulster at at * Annals of the Four Masters at at * Chronicum Scotorum at at...

, King of Connacht (d. 1309 and is thought to be "the earliest extant bardic poem containing an 'arming the hero' sequence with reference to the new Norman style of arms.'

It is of a piece with An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin?
An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin?
An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin? is an Irish poem dated to the late 16th-century. An sluagh sidhe so i nEamhuin? is...

, composed nearly four hundred years later.
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