Hugh Porter (1780–1812) was an Ulster Scots dialects poet and weaver.^[1] He was known as the Bard of Moneyslane, a village in County Down.^[2]

Porter started writing poetry as a teenager, although he likely had little formal education.^[1] In 1799, he dedicated a poem to his patron Reverend Thomas Tighe, who supported several local writers including Patrick Brontë.^[1][3] Tighe was a friend of the translator Reverend Henry Boyd, and was part of the Dromore literary circle with Thomas Percy.^[1][3]

In the 1800s, Porter's work was published in several newspapers under the pseudonym "A County Down Weaver" and "Tisander".^[4] In 1813, Poetical Attempts (1813), a volume of his work,^[1] was published "to exhilarate the evening of the author's life" with funds raised by Tighe.^[3]

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