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Archdeacon of Clogher, known for his scribal work in manuscripts of the Annals of Ulster.


Ó Callanáin (Aonghus) (fl. 15th century)
Aonghus (Aonghas) Ó Callanáin, Irish scribe, responsible for writing parts of the Book of Lismore for his patron, Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Riabhach of Cairbre (Co. Cork). His transcriptions include texts of the Acallam bec and Suidiugud tellaig Temra.




Ó Caoimh (Eoghan) (1656–1726)
Munster poet and scribe.


Irish scribe responsible for BL MS Egerton 184 and RIA MS 23 G 4.



Ó Cianáin (Ádam) (fl. 14th century)
Ádam Ó Cianáin of Lisgoole, Co. Fermanagh, Irish scribe. His obit is recorded in AFM s.a. 1374.


Ó Cianáin (Maoílechlainn) (fl. late 15th century)
Irish scribe responsible for Dublin, King's Inns, MS 12-13 (c. 1491/2), a compilation of classical Greco-Roman tales in Irish








A brother of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and one of the occasional assistants of the Four Masters.


Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche) (d. in or after 1664)
Irish scholar, poet, historian and scribe; one of the so-named ‘Four Masters’.


Irish scribe, son of Tuathal son of Tadhg Cam Ó Cléirigh. He is the main scribe of the miscellany Harley MS 5820 and Rawlinson MS 514 containing Maghnus Ó Domhnall’s Life of Colum Cille. His own floruit cannot be pinned down with any precision but his father is kown to have died in 1512.





Seán (or John) Ó Cleirigh, Irish scribe who could probably claim descent from certain illustrious scholars of the Uí Chléirigh, even if his own testimony seems fuzzy and inconsistent. He appears to have had, perhaps inherited, an unknown number of Irish manuscripts written by or associated with Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, five of which he brought to Dublin in 1817.



Irish lexicographer


Ó Conaill (Tadhg) (fl. 19th c.)
Irish scribe





Irish scribe and physician from a medical family in Ossory.



Ó Conuill (Seághan) (fl. 18th/19th century)
Seághan Ó Conuill / John O'Connell, Irish scribe





Murchadh (Riabhach) Ó Cuindlis, Irish scribe; pupil of Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh


Ó Cuirnín (Ádam) (fl. c. 1418)
Irish scribe, assistant of Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh.



Ó Dálaigh (Aodh) (fl. mid–18th century)
Irish scribe and poet






Ó Dochartaigh (Aodh) (fl. 17th century, first half)
Irish soldier and scribe. His patron was Capt. Somhairle Mac Domhnaill for whom he compiled two volumes of Irish verse, namely volume b of UCD Franciscan MS A 20 (Duanaire Finn) and the Book of the O'Conor Don.


Ó Dreada (Seán) (c.1770–1840)
Irish scribe and sculptor based in Cork.


Ó Droma (Solamh) (fl. early 15th century)
Irish scribe, known as one of the three that wrote parts of the Book of Ballymote (RIA MS 23 P 12) under the tutelage of Domnall Mac Aedhagáin.


Irish poet and historian.



Domhnall mac Aodha Ó Duibh Dá Bhoireann, main scribe of BL Egerton 88.



Irish scribe, known as one of the Four Masters