Aedh Ua Raithnen

Aedh Ua Raithnen, Irish poet, fl. c. 954.

Aedh was a poet, whose few known surviving verses concern the life and death of King Congalach Cnogba of Brega.

Example

A verse of Aedh's is inserted in the Annals of the Four Masters, sub anno 954:

After despoiling of pleasant Ath-cliath/Which sent the foreigners out of Ireland/Was two years over ten/Of the reign of fair Conghalach. Four, fifty, in truth/And nine hundred,—no slight fact/From the birth of Christ at fair/ Bethil Till the death of the noble son of Maelmithigh.