Cormacan Eigeas (died 946) was an Irish poet.
Cormacan Eigeas mac Maelbrighdhe was
Chief Ollam of Ireland
Chief may refer to:
Title or rank
Military and law enforcement
* Chief master sergeant, the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force
* Chief of police, the head of a police department
* Chief of the boat ...
. Eigeas denoted 'the Learned'. He was chief poet to
Muirchertach mac Néill
Muirchertach (modern spelling: Muircheartach, anglicised as Murtagh) is an Irish language male given name meaning "mariner". The name was sometimes Anglicised as "Mortimer." The Old Norse name Kjartan is derived from this name. Ásgeir Blöndal M ...
, King of Ulster. He wrote a poem celebrating the king's tour of Ireland in 941–942, amongst others.
[The circuit of Ireland (1841). I]
Tracts relating to Ireland
Volume I. Irish Archaeological Society. Dublin. Edward O'Reilly gives a full account of these in his ''Irish Writers'', LXXXVI sq.; d. anno 941.
His obituary is given in the
Annals of the Four Masters
The ''Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland'' () or the ''Annals of the Four Masters'' () are chronicles of Middle Ages, medieval Irish history. The entries span from the Genesis flood narrative, Deluge, dated as 2,242 Anno Mundi, years after crea ...
as follows:
References
External links
Annals of the Four Masters
946 deaths
10th-century Irish poets
Year of birth unknown
Irish male poets
Irish-language writers
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