Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín (Irish pronunciation: /eː bˠi mˠakɾˠəˈtʲiːnʲ/; Classical Irish: Aodh Buidhe Mac Cruitín, English: Hugh MacCurtin) (1680–1755) was an Irish poet, tutor, and soldier.
Mac Cruitín was a descendant of a bardic family of Thomond.
He lived about ten years in Dublin where he worked with Jonathan Swift on Irish sources for a history of Ireland and another ten years on the Continent, mostly at Louvain and Paris.
He returned to Ireland in 1738 where he taught in Limerick and then his native Clare, and established a school there.
Both churchyards at Kilmacreehy and Kilvoydane have been identified as the place where he is buried[1]