Muircheartach Ó Cobhthaigh, Irish poet, fl. 1586.
A member of the Ó Cobhthaigh clan of poets from County Westmeath. He is known as the author of six extant poems:
- Le dís cuirthear clú Laighean- Dlighidh liaigh leigheas a charad, one hundred and forty verses, (edited by Lambert McKenna in 1949)- Mairg as dáileamh don digh bhróin, on the death of Garret Nugent, Baron of Delvin (NLI MS G 992 (Nugent Manuscript) f.33v)- Do-ní clú áit oighreachda one hundred and twenty-four verses on William Nugent (MS G 992, f.34v)- Geall re hairlachd ainm barúin on the death of Christopher Nugent, 14th Baron Delvin (MS G 992, f. 35v)- Séd fine teisd Thoirrdhealbhaigh (edited by Ó Cróinín)Other poems by him may yet survive but cannot now be ascribed.
