Career
Like his neighbours, Peadar Ó Doirnín, Art Mac Cumhaigh and Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, Mac Cuarta was part of the Airgíalla tradition of poetry and song. Mac Cuarta was possibly born in Omeath in County Louth, although Kilkerley to the north-west of Dundalk is also mentioned as bearing links to his life and appears to have spent most of his life moving around this area and the Boyne Valley. As his name suggests, he was either blind or had seriously impaired vision and, at a time when gentry patronage of the poetic class was on the wane, this placed more emphasis on his literary skills rather than the traditional poetic tools of flattery towards their patrons.
Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta died in 1733 and is buried in an unmarked grave in the old graveyard at Monknewton, Company
