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Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372) was anIrishGaelicpoet.
Ó Dubhagáinn was among the first notable members of the bardic family Baile Uí Dhubhagáin (Ballyduggan), nearLoughrea,County Galway. He was accorded the rankollamhseanchai (professional historian) to theUí Maine recorded Irish clan history up until theNorman invasion of Ireland.
Ó Dubhagáin's most important work isTriallam timcheall na Fodla, a compilation of verse, giving the names of the various tribes, dynasties and territories of the Irish, and the various chiefs before the coming of the Normans. He devotes 152 lines toMeath, 354 toUlster, 328 toConnacht, and only 56 toLeinster, possibly unfinished at his death.
Triallam is notable, in that he writes as though the Norman invasion never occurred, and as if many of the families listed still occupied their original territories. This, however, may reflect his interest as anantiquarian preserving ancientlore.
His contemporary,Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín (died 1420), completed it. InCambrensis Eversus,John Lynch says that he could not find "any better source than this remarkable poem" concerning the chief Irish families before the coming of the English. Ó Dubhagáin was the author of several other extant poems, all more or less in the nature of amemoria technica, valuable chiefly for their facts about the kings of Ireland and of the provinces. They include:
At least three other poems by him are extant, amounting to several hundreds of verses.
He also composed several rules for determiningmoveable feasts.
He was the teacher ofAdhamh Ó Cianáin, who composedLeabhar Adhamh Ó Cianáin, in or about the 1340s. Ó Cianáin stated that he wrote it by and for himself, and out of a book of his teacher.
Ó Dubhagáin made a pilgrimage toSt. Columba’s tomb and lived the rest of his life at a monastery on Loughrea, although other sources state he died at themonastery ofBoyle inCounty Roscommon.[1]
The surname is generally now renderedDugan. Notables of the name include: