Cellach húa Rúanada, Irish

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 poet

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, died 1079.

Cellachy held the post of Chief Ollam of Ireland

Chief Ollam of Ireland

The Ollamh Érenn or Chief Ollam of Ireland was a professional title of Gaelic Ireland.-Background:An ollam was a poet or bard of literature and history. Each chief or tuath had its own ollam...

 and died in 1079. His obit is given in the Annals of the Four Masters

Annals of the Four Masters

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland or the Annals of the Four Masters are a chronicle of medieval Irish history...

 as follows- "M1079.4 Ceallach Ua Ruanadha, chief poet of Ireland in his time, died."

His obit is given in the Annals of Ulster

Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster are annals of medieval Ireland. The entries span the years between AD 431 to AD 1540. The entries up to AD 1489 were compiled in the late 15th century by the scribe Ruaidhrí Ó Luinín, under his patron Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa on the island of Belle Isle on Lough Erne in the...

 as follows- "U1079.1 Cellach ua Ruanada, chief ollav of Ireland, rested in peace."

His obit is given in the Chronicon Scotorum

Chronicon Scotorum

Chronicon Scotorum is a medieval Irish chronicle.According to Nollaig Ó Muraíle, it is "a collection of annals belonging to the 'Clonmacnoise group', covering the period from prehistoric times to 1150 but with some gaps, closely related to the 'Annals of Tigernach'...

 as follows- "Annal CS1079 Kalends. Cellach ua Ruanadha, ollamh of Ireland, dies."

An Irish clavis or metrical tract has been preserved in the Book of Leinster

Book of Leinster

The Book of Leinster , is a medieval Irish manuscript compiled ca. 1160 and now kept in Trinity College, Dublin, under the shelfmark MS H 2.18...

 as well as in the eighteenth-century manuscript Trinity College

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 H 1 15, where it was copied from a fourteenth-century exemplar that seems now to be lost. Rudolf Thurneysen

Rudolf Thurneysen

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 incorporated this poem in his Mittelirische Verslehren as Verslehre IV. In the Book of Leinster

Book of Leinster

The Book of Leinster , is a medieval Irish manuscript compiled ca. 1160 and now kept in Trinity College, Dublin, under the shelfmark MS H 2.18...

 it was ascribed to a certain Cellach .h. Ruan, who may be identical with Cellach hua Ruanada.