Cobhlair Mor

Cobhlair Mor, alternatively Cobhlaich Mor or Cobhlaig Mor, (died 1395, Ireland) was an affluent Irish woman and the preserver of Gaelic customs at a time when they were being undermined by Edward III of England.[1] In 1367, Gaelic traditions had been declared illegal by the Statutes of Kilkenny.[1]

Coblaigh Mor was the daughter of Cathal, who was the son of Donnel O’Connor, King of Connaught. The 1395 obituary of Cobhlach Mór mentions that she was married several times, first to Niall O’Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, then to Aodh O’Rourke, Lord of Breifne, and finally to Cathal, son of Aodh Breifneach O’Connor, the ‘royal heir’ (ríoghdhamhna) of Connacht.[2] In the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Mor is referred to as "Port na-d-Tri Namhat" (trns. the port or harbor of three enemies) because her three husbands were enemies of one another.[3]

She was interred in the monastery of Boyle.

References

  1. 1 2 Christine Meek, ed. (2000). Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Portland, OR: Four Courts Press.
  2. ↑ McAuliffe, Mary (1996). Christine Meek and Katharine Simms, ed. ‘The Fragility of Her Sex’?: Medieval Irishwomen in Their European Context. Portland, OR: Four Courts Press. pp. 153–62.
  3. ↑ "Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Volume 4 (AD 1373–1500)". Corpus of Electronic Texts (UCC). p. 737. Retrieved 25 September 2013.


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