Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh

Domhnall Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1446) was an Irish poet.

A brother of Maeleachlainn Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1429) and a son of An Clasach Ó Cobhthaigh (died 1415), Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family. However, he was also famous as a soldier. One of his surviving poems, Aire riot a mhic Mhurchadha - addressed to the Mac Murchadha Caomhánach - urges the men of Leinster to resist the Anglo-Irish.

He was killed, along with his two sons, on the island of Cróinis on Lough Ennell, by Art Ó Mael Sheachlainn and the sons of Fiacha Mag Eochagáin.

References

Ó Cobhthaigh family, pp. 435–436, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, volume 41, Norbury-Osbourne, September 2004.

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