Life
1656-1726; b. Co. Cork, d. Doneraile; son of landowners, ed. bardic schools,
practising dán direach, and later amhrán metres; m. 1680;
ordained at death of wife in 1707, becoming parish priest in Doneraile;
see The Gael, Vol. XIX, 45 (1900); HS O’Grady, comp., Catalogue
of Irish MSS in the British Museum, completed by Robin Flower (1892);
also ‘An tAtair Eoghan Ó Caoimnh, a Bheatha agus a Shaotor’,
Gadelica I, (1912), pp.1-9, 101-11. DIW
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Notes
[no source]; 1656-1726, b. perhaps Co. Cork; m. Eilionóir de Nógla,
1680; spent part of following years in Kerry visiting house of Ó
Súilleabháin Mór, Dunkerron, etc., transcribing material
from old MSS, visited Domhnall, son of Séafraidh Ó Donnchadha
an Ghleanna, at Glenflesk, copying material from O’Donoghue MSS,
evicted from home at Port Maighe (prob. Co. Kerry), 1692; moved to Cork
City; associated with Diarmain mac Seáin Bhuí Mhic Cártaigh
of Blarney, whom he lamented in verse (d.1707); also with Fr. Conchúr
mac Cairteáin of Carrignavar (d.1737) whom he assisted with trans.
of A[cc]allam na bhFíoraon, Ulliam Mac Cairteáin,
a particular friend; imprisoned in Cork city, 1698, 1703; befriended by
John Baptist Sleyne, Catholic bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross; the deaths
of his wife in 1707, and his son Art in 1709; ordained 1717; had a sharp
correspondence with Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill while parish
priest of Doneraile. See Breandan Ó Conchúir, Scríobhaithe
Chorcaí 1700-1850 (1982), pp.33-39.
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