His membership of this order led to his nickname bocht (poor), as the Franciscans observed vows of poverty.
Clearly highly trained, he utilised the strict Dán Díreach form of Classical Modern Irish.
His compositions however enjoyed a high level of popularity among fellow poets in his lifetime, Twenty-eight poems are ascribed to him.
Twenty-seven are in McKenna's 1931 edition, while poem 58 of Dioghluim Dána gives him as its author in one manuscript.
It accorded him the status of best and most prolific composer of religious verse "in recent times", again suggestive of his popularity in his lifetime.