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Page 5 - II. An Account of the Tribes and Customs of the District of Hy-Fiachrach, in the Counties of Sligo and Mayo. Edited from the Book of Lecan, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, and from a copy of the Mac Firbis MS. in the possession of the Earl of Roden. With a Translation and Notes, and a Map of Hy-Fiachrach. By JOHN O'DONOVAN, Esq.
Page 20 - The Book of Obits and Martyrology of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin. Edited from the original MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, by the REV. JOHN CLARKE CROSTHWAITE, AM, Rector of St.
Page 143 - Coghlan, chief of Dealbhna Eathra, and Lughaidh, the ancestor of O'Finnallain, now Fenelon. The last of this family who had possession of Dealbhna-mor was Ceallach O'Finnallain, who is mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters at the year 1174. They were dispossessed soon after by Sir Hugh de Lacy, who granted their territory to Gilbert Nugent, ancestor of the Marquis of Westmeath, and the family have been for many centuries in obscurity and poverty.
Page 65 - ... and, therefore only, worthy notice, is this: that on the taking of a whale on the coasts, which is a royal fish, it shall be divided between the king and queen; the head only being the king's property, and the tail of it the queen's. " De sturgione observatur, quod rex ilium habebit integrum: de balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam.
Page 19 - Ireland, vol. i. containing: 1. The Circuit of Ireland; by Muircheartach Mac Neill, Prince of Aileach; a Poem written in the year 942 by Cormacan Eigeas, Chief Poet of the North of Ireland. Edited, with a Translation and Notes, and a Map of the Circuit, by JOHN O'DoNOVAN, Esq. 2. " A Brife Description of Ireland, made in this year 1589, by Robert Payne, vnto xxv. of his partners, for whom he is vndertaker there.
Page 16 - Richard Rothwell, Esq., Rockfield, Kells. Rev. Franc Sadleir, DD, VPRIA, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Francis A. Sanders, Esq., AB, Dublin. Rev. William Sewell, AM, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, MP, Recorder...
Page 1 - FINIS. IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. AT a General Meeting of the IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, held in the Board Room of the Royal Irish Academy, on...
Page 18 - Society during the year for which they have paid a subscription ; but shall not be entitled to any other privileges. IX. No Member who is three months in arrear of his subscription shall be entitled to vote, or to any other privileges of a Member, and any Member who shall be one year in arrear shall be considered as having resigned. Associates who are in arrear shall cease, ipso facto, to belong to the Society.
Page 19 - Rath (Moira), from an ancient MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Edited in the original Irish, with a Translation and Notes, by JOHN O'DONOVAN. II. Tracts relating to Ireland, vol. u. containing: 1 . " A Treatise of Ireland ; by John Dymmok.
Page 122 - O'Kelly, son and heir of Cornelius, otherwise Connor Ne Garrogh O'Kelly, late of Gallagh, county Galway, Gentleman, deceased, was granted to Lady Ursula Bourke, widow of Sir Thomas Bourke, Knight, to rear him in the Protestant religion and English habits, and in Trinity College, Dublin, from the twelfth to the eighteenth year of his age." He married, first, Mary, daughter of Henry, son of Sir Hubert Burke, and had issue Donogh Reagh O'Kelly, of Gallagh. Secondly, he married Julia, daughter of Sir...