Mícheál Ó Cellaigh

Mícheál Ó Cellaigh, Irish scribe, fl. 1875.

Mícheál Ó Cellaigh was a scribe, apparently based in Ballywinna, County Galway. He translated poems and songs by Antoine Ó Raifteiri; healso wrote down tales of the Fenians, and may have transcribed some material for Lady Gregory. He was one of a number of Galway scribes who collected and transmitted Irish literature and folklore in the county at the time, including Pádhraic Ó Comáin and Micheál Ó Conghaile