() was an
Irish scribe
A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of Printing press, automatic printing.
The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as ...
of the
Ó Cuindlis family of
brehon
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s and scholars. Other renderings of his name have
or ,
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He was said to be a native of Bally Lough Deacker (today called Ballaghdacker, in Irish , in the parish of
Athleague, which straddles north Galway and south Roscommon).
[ Citing: And: Also quotes at some length from an unspecified publication of Nollaig Ó Muraíle.] was one of the scribes of the ('Great Book of Lecan'), 1397–1418, under the guidance of
Giolla Íosa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh.
He was later the scribe of ''
An Leabhar Breac'' ('The Speckled Book') at
Duniry, 1408–1411; it is the largest Irish-language vellum manuscript attributed to a single scribe.
He is also credited with a third work, c. 1400, known as ('The Red Book of Munster') or ('The Red Book'), a genealogical work from which material was copied in 1621 by
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh at
Quin Friary, possibly examined in the 1630s by
Antonius Bruodinus at the library of
Moynoe,
and last seen (by Ó Cléirigh again) on 30 June 1634 at a convent in Thomond (
County Limerick
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).
It is not to be confused with the much later ('The Book of Munster') or various other
manuscripts called ''Red Book''.
See also
*
Domnall Ó Cuindlis (d. 1342), Irish historian
References
*''Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature'', Robert Welsh, 1996.
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15th-century Irish historians
14th-century births
15th-century deaths
Irish chroniclers
14th-century Irish historians
Irish scribes
Writers from County Galway
Medieval European scribes
Irish-language writers