Cú Chonnacht Ó Cianáin
Male, Deceased Person
– 1615
Who was Cú Chonnacht Ó Cianáin?
Cú Chonnacht Ó Cianáin, d. 1615, was a rymer or chronicler to Rory Maguire.
He was apparently the first man racked in Ireland, the instrument being used most severely upon him during an interrogation into a bungled insurrection in early summer 1615. On 31 July of that year, he and five others were condemned to death in Derry, and he is believed to have been hung shortly afterwards.
He is also described as a yeoman of Moygh, a place somewhere between Ballymoney and the Bann, County Antrim. He was a brother of Tadhg Og Ó Cianáin.
The surname Ó Cianáin is now generally rendered as Keenan.
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