Additions to the collection of Irish manuscripts at Mount Melleray abbey
Éigse 30 (1997 [1998]) 92-108
MS 14
FRAGMENT
[p. 104]
19th cent. Paper. 16 × 20 cm. Pp. 12, now numbered in pencil, p. 4 with scribal 14. Scribe: (1) pp. 1-8, [S]eághann O Mraoisadh (p. 5) ‘o Mhonotouic, san mbliagan : 1843’ (p. 5). (2) 9-12, in the hand of Minnie Prendergast, 1888 (p. 11), 1890 (p. 12).
Unbound. Six loose leaves of identical paper, torn and fragile. Machine-ruled, 15 lines.
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1. [A mhic a chroidhe ag baint dioghaltais ná déin troid.] Beg. acephalous, [An] tríughadh hathcunídhe agallaimh air Rígh na ccómhacht. 17 stt. Foll. (p. 5.11) by: [Guidhim] gach faraire do chalmshliocht Eoghain is Chuinn. 1 st. ‘[S]eághann O Mraoisadh o Mhonotouic, san mbliagan : 1843.’
[p. 105]
5.z. ‘Aig seo dánn maith.’ A aonmhic Déi do chuaidh déag a mbárr an chrainn. Breaks off incomplete (p. 8) with st. 12; defective.
9. [ Nár lia aingeal i bhflaitheas faoi láimh an Ríogh .] Begin acephalous, Nárra liagh braon sa tréan muim [sic] fharige ata. 9 stt. ‘25/7/88.’
11.5. ‘An taitir Uilliam Sairseill cct. / air la breithe Dei agus air chuimhne na cille.’ Is air shléiabh [sic] na tuatha beigh [altered to deigh] shluaighte. Breaks off incomplete (p. 12.3) with st. 3.
12.4. Melodeon fingerings for five tunes: ‘The Butchers March [pencil:] December 29th 1890’; ‘The Colleen Dhas Dhown’; ‘The Scotch Reel’; ‘Old Lang syine’; ‘Crocket Bridge’.