Peirce Ó Caiside

Who is Peirce Ó Caiside?

Peirce Ó Caiside was a Gaelic-Irish physician and writer, died 1504.

Ó Caiside was a member of a medical family of Fermanagh. The Annals of Ulster, sub anno 1504, state:

⁕O'Caiside of Cuil died this year: namely, Pierce, son of Thomas O'Caiside; to wit, the medical ollam of Mag Uidhir and a recognised master in literature and in physic, in theory and in practice and a man that kept a general guest-house for everyone. And he died of the King's Game.

His father bore the same name as the 18th-century friar, soldier and poet Tomás Ó Caiside, whose parents were natives of Ulster.