1630), sometimes spelt in English as Carroll Oge O'Daly,[1][2] was a 17th-century Irish language poet and harpist, who composed the song "Eileanóir a Rún".
[3] Irish folklore recounts how Eileanóir Chaomhánach (Eleanor Kavanagh) eloped with Cearbhall (Carroll) the day she was about to marry another man.
Mo ghrá thú, den chéad fhéachaint, Eileanóir a Rún Is ort a bhím ag smaoineadh, tráth a mbím i mo shuan A ghrá den tsaol, is a chéad searc, is tú is deise ná ban Éireann.
The story Mac na Míchomhairle (The Son of Poor Council) has been ascribed to him in folklore, but current scholarship casts doubt on this ascription.
A version of Seachrán Chearbhaill by Joe Éinniu Seosamh Ó hÉanaí is available on a CD with the book Joe Éinniu: Nár fhágha mé Bás Choíche by Liam Mac Con Iomaire (Cló Iarchonnachta 2007); and a later recording of an earlier version of the song on Peadar Ó Ceannabháin's CD, Mo Chuid den tSaol (Cló-Iarchonnachta).