Ó Caoimh, Eoghan

Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, The, January, 2000 by ROBERT WELCH

>Ó Caoimh, Eoghan (?1655–1726), scholar and poet. Born into a bardic family in Co. Cork, he married Eilionóir de Nógla (Nagle) in 1680 and spent some years first in Co. Kerry, and then near Cork, where he copied manuscripts . Following the deaths of his wife in 1707 and his son Art in 1709, he was ordained in 1717, becoming parish priest at Doneraile, whence he conducted a sharp correspondence with Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill .