Life
fl.700; poet; probably member of the Ua nEachdhach, ecclesiastical family
with territory south and west of Armagh, associated wtih recovery of Táin
Bó Cuailnge in ‘Fallsigud na Tána’, in Book
of Leinster, tradition relating how the shade of Fergus mac Roich
recited it to him; poems include ‘Admuinemmar nóeb-Patraicc’
to St. Patrick which Tomás O Flannghaile based his ‘Dóchas
Linn Naomh Pádraig’ on; Annals of Ulster, the Yellow
Book of Lecan, the Book of Ballymote; in the Annals of Tigornach
he is said to have written an elegy for Conaing mac Aedain, a Scottish
prince; refs. also in glosses on Felire Aengusso; Tomas Ó Fiaich
placed him 700 a.d. OCIL
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