Bards, harpers, pipers and poets.

[Christopher]

These Irish entertainers had a rough time in the fourteenth century. In 1367 the Statute of Kilkenny made it penal for any Anglo Irish or English to receive or entertain Irish bards, poets, harpers and pipers. The reasoning behind this somewhat illogical law was the fear that these Irish entertainers were spies who were informing the Irish rebels about Anglo Irish movements. http://harpsaroundireland.com/history These laws must have lasted
for quite a number of years as in the seventeenth century a number of Irish musicians received pardons. www.libraryireland.com/IrishMusic/XVIII.php

It's difficult to trace ancestors in Ireland so we may never know if there are living descendents of many musicians of that period in time including O'Lynch, harper, and Murtagh MacCoyne, of Kilmallock, piper, as well as Art MacGillegrome MacDonnell and Geoffrey M'Glade who were both harpers.