Risdeard Ó Conchubhair

Risdeard Ó Conchubhair, Irish scribe and physician, 1561-18 October 1625. He was part of an Irish medical family in Gaelic Ireland.

Risdeard Ó Conchubhair
Born1561
Ireland
Died(1625-10-18)18 October 1625
Occupation(s)Irish scribe, physician
Years active1561-1625
EmployerFlorence Fitzpatrick, 3rd Baron Upper Ossory
Known forscribe

Biography

Risdeard was a member of the Ó Conchubhair medical family from Ossory, Leinster, who were themselves a branch of the Ó Connchubhair Failghe dynasty, rulers of the Kingdom of Uí Failghe.

In one surviving manuscript - now RIA MS 439 (3 C 19) - he gives his genealogy, text title, patron, place and date of writing:[1]

Finis. I am Richard, son of Muircheartach, son of Tadhg, son of Muircheartach, son of Cathal, son of Murchadh, son of Muircheartach na Cairrge O Conchubhair, who by permission of God wrote this Prognostica of Bernardus, in the school of my kinsman and master, Donnchadh Og O Conchubhair, namely, the chief Master of Medicine of Mac Giollapadraig. And Achadh Mic Airt [2] is my place of writing. And out of the book of Fearghus Mac Bheathadh it was transcribed. To-day is April the first, 1590. Jesus. Maria. [3]

A 20th-century editor, Paul Walsh, remarked:

I have seen but two notices of him outside his own MS., namely, H.2.7, page 345, top margin, where he scribbled a few lines of verse, and added the note : Ag sin duity a Risderd I Betecain od shesi A. Risterd mac Muircertaig ; and in a note in page 349 of the same MS., which I have failed to decipher satisfactorily.[4]

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References

Footnotes
  1. Corpus of Electronic Texts 1997, Royal Irish Academy: RIA 3 C 19
  2. Aghmacart Monastery, an early monastic site, founded 6th century.
  3. Walsh 1933, p. 155, Translation.
  4. Walsh 1933, p. 164, Note 62.

Sources
  • Corpus of Electronic Texts (1997). "CELT: The online resource for Irish history, literature and politics". celt.ucc.ie. University College Cork.
  • Walsh, Paul (1933). Gleanings from Irish manuscripts (2nd ed.). Dublin: At the sign of the three candles.

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