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Ciotogach (adj.)

left-handed

any left-handed player who plays some kind of bagpipe (&c.)

No identical types known (yet).
Piper

Term encountered in O'Neill only; NB¹: Oddly, Google Translate shows 2 results (Choose Irish, find ciotogach; ➺ ciotógach [Note the added acute accent], ciotach); NB²: Unfortunately the website "How to ..." only provides the English pronunciation; NB³: ➺ Patrick J. ("Patsy") Touhey, who was a famous left-handed piper.

Sources

O’Neill, Francis: Irish minstrels and musicians: the story of Irish music [Chicago, 1913]. Cork, 1987 [facsimile], p.236 (➺ John Egan).

Web

Google books (O'Neill [Find ciotogach]).
How to pronounce (Choose audio pronunciation, but I advise you to ignore the video options, because all of them are non-related and, consequently, utterly useless!).