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Giolla na Naomh O hUidhrin, Irish historian and poet, died 1420.

O hUidhrin is known as the author of Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh, a topographical poem of a kind with Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin's Triallam timcheall na Fodla, of which it is a supplement.

Although his obit is noted in all the main Irish annals, indicating he was regarded as a noteworthy man, nothing further is known of him.

References

• O hUidhrin, Giolla-na-naomh, Aidan Breen, in Dictionary of Irish Biography, p. 574, Cambridge, 2009.

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