Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte
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Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte, Irish poet, fl. c. 1601.

A member of the Ó an Cháintighe
Ó an Cháintighe
Ó an Cháintighe, an Irish Bardic family of west Cork. The medieval poet Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte was the composer of the following poems:* A shaoghail ón a shaoghail* Bean dá chumhadh críoch Ealla* Gluais a litir go Lunndain...

 bardic family, and a relative of Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte
Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte
Fear Feasa Ó'n Cháinte, Irish poet, fl. 16th century.Native of Munster, and a member of the Ó an Cháintighe bardic family. His known poems include the following:* A shaoghail ón a shaoghail* Bean dá chumhadh críoch Ealla...

, Tadhg Olltach is probably to be identified with 'Teige on Canty, of Clansheane', mentioned in a fiant of Elizabeth I dated 14 May 1601, along with his wife, 'Margaret ny Fynan'. Slanshane appears as part of the Carbery
Barony of Carbery
Carbery, or the Barony of Carbery, was once the largest barony in Ireland, and essentially a small, semi-independent kingdom on the southwestern coast of Munster, in what is now County Cork, from its founding in the 1230s by Donal Gott MacCarthy to its gradual decline in the late 16th and early...

 lands of Mac Carrthaigh Riabhach
MacCarthy Reagh
The MacCarthy Reagh dynasty are a branch of the great MacCarthy dynasty, Kings of Desmond, deriving from the ancient Eóganachta, of the central Eóganacht Chaisil sept. The MacCarthys Reagh seated themselves as Princes of Carbery in what is now southwestern County Cork in the 13th century...

 in an inquisition
Inquisition
The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis , was the "fight against heretics" by several institutions within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the 12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy...

 of 1636, showing that it compromised the northern part of the parish of Desertserges
Desertserges
Desertserges is a parish between the towns of Enniskean and Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. The parish of Desertserges consist of about of land on the south side of the river Bandon - the river being its northern boundary for about . Most of the area is hilly, rising from 60 to 230 meters...

, County Cork
County Cork
County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...

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Tadgh is almost solely known by the poem Torchoir ceól Cloinne Cathoil, a lament for Conchubhar Mac Conghalaigh, harper to Domhnall Ó Donnabháin, lord of Clann Chathail from 1584 until his death in 1639.

See also

  • Torchoir ceól Cloinne Cathoil
  • Uaidhe féin do fhás Iosa (attributed)
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