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| Birth | 1430 | |
| Death | 1480 (aged 50 years) |
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Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal (1430-1480) was a medieval Scottish poet.
In 1470, she wrote an elegy to her husband, Niall Og Mac Neill, Constable of Castle Sween, Knapdale, which was the earliest documented poem in Classic Scottish Gaelic, written by a woman. It was written in the Classic Bardic meter.