The Tinnakill Duanaire is an early seventeenth-century manuscript "prized for its important collection of bardic religious verse". It is believed to have been compiled for Aodh Buidhe Mac Domhnaill (1546–1619) of Tinnakill, Queen's County

County Laois

County Laois is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It was formerly known as Queen's County until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. The county's name was formerly spelt as Laoighis and Leix. Laois County Council...

, Leinster

Leinster

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, who is the subject of one of its poems, along with his brother, Alasdar (d. 1577).

The poem concerning Aodh Buidhe — Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean

Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean

Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean is a poem found only in the Tinnakill Duanaire on folio 34r. It was composed for the brothers Aodh Buidhe Mac Domhnaill and Alasdar of Tinnakill, Queen's County, by Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh. It dates from about 1570....

— is thought to have been composed about 1570 by Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh

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...

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