Ó Dálaigh

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

Ó Dálaigh, a learned bardic family which came to prominence in the early 12th cent., after the bardic families began to consolidate their position as the influence of the monasteries started to decline [see monasticism ]. Cú Chonnacht Ó Dálaigh was great-grandfather to Donnchadh Mor Ó Dálaigh (d.

1244) and Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh ( fl. 1220). They had a school in Cork at Dunamark, near Bantry, as early as the late 12th cent. Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh (d. 1387) traced the family origin to Dálach, a pupil of Colmán mac Lénéni , the 6th-cent. patron saint of Cloyne, Co. Cork.