Risdeard Ó Conchubhair

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

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:

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 AirtAghmacart Monastery, an early monastic site, founded 6th century. 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.

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.

Risdeard Ó Conchubhair

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