Aed mac Donn Ó Sochlachain

Who is Aed mac Donn Ó Sochlachain?

Aed mac Donn Ó Sochlachain, Erenagh of Cong and Irish musician, died 1226.

Ó Sochlachain was one of the earliest Irish musicians described in the extant Irish annals, denoting the respect the profession had acquired in recent generations. The Annals of Connacht describe him as the:

erenagh of Cong, a man eminent for chanting and for the right tuning of harps and for having made an instrument for himself which none had made before, distinguished also in every art such as poetry, engraving and writing and in every skilled occupation, died this year.