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LS 23 F 21 (Duanaire na mBuitléarach)

Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Royal Irish Academy

998

23 F 21

Miscellaneous.

? cent. Vellum. Ca. 11 3/10 × 8⅕. Pp. 18, numbered regularly 1-17, [18]. There are no scribal signatures, but the ms. is the work of several hands. The main portion of this ms. ends imperfectly at p. [16] ; it contains, for the most part, eulogies of members of the Butler family. Pp. 17, [18] measure 14 × 9; two leaves of paper containing a translation into English of these pages have been added at end. Ms. has vellum flyleaves, blank. Bd. in half-leather, inscribed in gilt on back, "Irish MS."; Betham MS., vol. lxxii.

P.

1 . Torna Mac Máoilín. Fada re coimed clu Roisderd. Verse and prose (3 qq.+ 10.11. prose+ 2 qq.+ 20 11. prose + 9 qq.). Preceded by invocation.

3 . Mosa cach clu Buitlérach. 20 qq.

4 . m. Domhnall Mac an Baird. Do bheannaigh Día dún meic Píaruis. 10 qq.

5 . Eoghan mac Donnchada Mheigcraith. Ni heasboidh acht crádh croidhe. 41 qq.

5 i. Scribal quatrain, beg. Ait mo roinn gan rann oile.

6 . Triall gach einfhir gu cuirt tTeabóid. Verse and prose (14 qq. + 6 11. prose + 6 qq. + 6 11. prose + 10 qq. + 33 11. prose). Followed by some lines in praise of Máire, pre­sumably the wife of Teabóid, the subject of this eulogy.

8 . Forais airdrigh iath Connacht. Ca. 59 qq.

11 . Gilla Ísa O Dalaigh. Damh fein choiglim an chathui 50 + 4 qq.

14 . Domnall Mac an Baird. Rath fa croidhe chumas Dia. 39 qq.

14 i. Giolla Brigde Mac Bruidheadha. Cia re n-egonainn m’esbaidh. 4 qq.

15 . A mic Lughaidh tolaib snas. 12 qq.

[16.] Guirfead mesi altran clann uaim. Ca. 56 11. Imperfect at end. Preceded by invocation.

17 . An agreement between O Domhnaill and Tadhg mac Cathail Óig Ó Concubhair (1539) on the conditions upon which the latter held Sligo and his territory in Connacht. Beg. Asse so cor 7 cundradh aratuc O Domnaill bardacht tShligigh do Thadhg mac Cathail Óig I Concubhair . . . Followed by names of witnesses. Two sheets of paper following this leaf contain a translation.

[18.] blank, except for some numbers and the names “O’Donell” and “Sligo,” and the words “Is se so deinntiobhar mic Cathail Oig” (all reversed).