HOI Chapter XXXIII for pbfallon
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:36 am
KILTRUSTAN-ONE OF IRELAND'S ART SCHOOLS 300
Sunday, August 13th.
Yesterday, August 12th, I traversed the parish of Kiltrustan and visited the old church, of which a great portion is still standing. It is certainly very ancient, and was in its day a church of considerable extent and beauty. This is the second of the three churches which St. Patrick erected in the three Tuaths, or lordships, the first being Kill-Mor, or Cella-magna, lying in the Tuath calleded Tir-Briuin,na Sionna; this, called Kiltrustan, was in the Tuath called Corcaochland; the third is still to be looked for in Kinel-Dofa. I think Colgan is wrong in translating the original Irish of St. Evin and his commentators, where they these three churches. This Tripartite Life of St.Patrick was written in a most ancient dialect, and used as a class-book in the Bardic Schools of Ireland; and the original Irish was often glossed, modernized, paraphrased, and in many instances interpolated by later writers. So that it is not wondered at that Colgan should now and then mistake the meaning. I think, also, that he has not translated the passage about Corcaucuchland correctly, for I now see plainly from the lie of the country and the antiquity of the territorial names in this Corcaochland never took in any part of Magh-luig,and that therefore it never extended so far to the north as Tir-Ellill (Arrill), in the now County of Sligo, as Colgan's translation of the Tripartite would give us to understand.
In connection,with the old church of Kiltrustan, there is an old story still current in the country from which it can be inferred that St. Patrick was the founder of it. When that Apostle was converting the pagans of this part of Connaught, he met here in Corcaochland a pagan named Trostan, whom he converted; and when baptizing him in the open air, he (Patrick) wanted to stick his pastorial staff in the ground, but by some mistake or blunder, instead of ticking it in the around, where should he thrust the but in Trostan's foot, in which it remained firmly fixed. He went on with the ceremony, asking the convert if he believed in the unity and trinity of God, incarnation of Christ, in the unity, infallibility, etc. of the church. Poor Tostan all this time had the spike fixed in his foot, and he bore it patiently and with the enthusiasm of a Hindoo, believing it was part of the ceremony of baptism to have the Trosdam, or staff, stuck in his foot. When the ceremony was over, St, Patrick discovered his blunder, and expressed his admiration of Trostan’s patience and religious fortitude, and on the spot where such an instance of Christian patience occurred, he thought it should bode well for the future prosperity of the faith to erect a sacred edifice, which he thought prudent to name from the name of the convert, which happened, by chance, to be the Irish word for a staff--AMHRL ASBT in FILE.
“For Thrustan had Patrick's Thrustan thrust in His patient foot, from which the blood was bursting while Patrick, with the water of the fountain Made him a Saint who could remove a mountain.”
The same story is told in the lives of our glorious Apostle about Aengus, King of Munster, and a similar story is told at Struille, near Saul in the County of Down, but of a different person. Trostan was certainly the name of a man among the pagan Irish, and I did expect to find this name in the Pedigree of Mac Brannan, chief of Corcaochland, in which this church is situated; but no such name occurs in it, for Mac Brannan descends from Ono, the noble Druid who granted Imleach-Ona to St. Patrick, where he erected the church of Elphin. The following is the senior line* of the pedigree of Mac Brannan up to Ono, as given by Dudley Firbisse.
(1) Conor, (2) Shane, (3) Eaehmareach, i.e., Horseman; Dermot Bacach, 1377; (55) Eachmareach, 1319; (6) Con—Randel, 1256; (7) Eaehmarcach, (8) Gilchreese-Brannan, 1159 (9) Branan a quo. Mac Brannan, died 1120; (10) Dunshee (11) Morogh, 1088; (12) Gilchreest, (13) Echtierna, Lord Lord of the Horses (14) Adith, (15) Uroon, (16) Mulvihill, (17) Nuadat, (19) Ono, the noble Druid ayus frater Ida; (20) Erie, the Red; (22) Brian, ancestor of all the the Hy-Bruins and brother of Niall of the 9 Hostages; (23) Eochy Moyvain, Monarch of Ireland.
The last notice of Mac Brannan in the Annals Masters is at the year 1396; O'Conor Roe seems to have seized upon his territory shortly after this period. There is a holy well this parish which gives its name of Toberpatric in a town land, which affords another evidence that Kiltrustan was one of Patrick's churches, Inquisition 34. Elizabeth finds that the Rectory of Coreaghlane, in the Barony of Roscommon, extended into all the townlands of the parishes of Kiltrustan, and Clonfinloghe, and Templereogh. but I have not yet been able to ascertain what parish it is that is called Templereough in this Inquisition.
The parish of Killuckin, forming the south-eastern part of the Barony of Roscommon, is called by the Irish Kill-o-quin, but I
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* The name Throstan is still around this place, and in Ballintogher, Sligo.
Could not find out its patron saint. In this parish lies Ard-an-Choillin, the hill by the little wood, where a branch of the O’Conors had a mansion seat, but no ruins are visible there now but Raths. I abstracted the following references to this palce from the Four Masters:--
“1368. Teigh O’Conor was treacherously taken prisoner in his own house at Ard-an-Choillin by Roderic, the son or Turlogh, i.e., The O'Conor.
“388. Donnell O'Conor made an incursion into Machaire, Connacht, and burned Ard-an-Chollin and the island in Loch Cairgin (Loch of Cargin).
“1489. A dreadful battle between the O'Conors at Ard-an-Choillin
In this parish is also Failsc, said to have been the boundary between Magh-Naol and the Thuaths.
The parish of Kilcooley is called by the Irish Cill Cuile (cella Anguli), but I could find no monument to throw any light upon its history. Tradition makes it a church of St. Patrick, but vague tradition cannot be received when there is no monument, or stone, or even any regular legend to render it probable. There is a burial leacht or flag on the grave of the O’Connors here. The last person buried under this flag was Mary O’Conor, Drinane.
I find no locality in this parish celebrated in history, but Doire chuire Roboretum Corci, where the English came to a conference with Felim O'Conor, King of Connaught, 1262.
“The English of Ireland marched with a great army against Felim, the son of Charles, the Red-handed O'Conor. Upon hearing Felim, O'Conor sent off the greater number of the cows of Connaught into Tirconnell, and remained himself on Iris Saimher (at Ballyshannon) to defend his cows and his people. The English afterwards despatched messengers to him and his son with offers of peace, and they came to a conference with them at Athderryquirk, where they made peace with the English, but no hostages or pledges were given or received on -Four Masters.
There is a lough at Doire choire called Loch-na-fola, i.e., the Blood, from which it might, perhaps, be inferred that people did not at all times keep the peace or come upon terms of peace at the place, but it may have received an application from its having, like the Lachan Dere, near Elphin, assumed the colour of blood to forebode war and desolation to the inhabitants.
I have received theother half and am all right again.
Now for Kinel-Dofa
Your obedient servant,
John O’Donovan
After the most minute research I could discover no antiquity about Strokestown but the site of the Palace of Cloonfree. The town of Strokestown has been removed from its original position , as appears from the following description of it in 1683, by the Revd. John Keogh, of Cloonslanor:--
“As for Strokestown, it is in Irish called Belawhnamhully,
BEL AITH NA nBUILLE, word for word the pass (mouth) of the ford of strokes, there having been some strokes of battle given here heretofore, which gave denomination (i.e., name) to the place. ` Here was not long ago to be seen a r ound fort of stone., the wall whereof was ten foot in thick
Next to the fort a small stream but pretty deep (rising out of a little lake not far
from the town) is swallowed up into the ground and, passing underneath of the street, bubbles up again in several places out of the ground in great quantity, making a fair pond in the town and serving to turn three or four mills. There is in this town no considerable buildings only next the sail-pond (whereinto the waters spring out of the ground) where formerly was a little old castle. There is now a bawn with flankers, etc., etc.
"While I was writing this news was brought me: Mahon, the landlady of the place, was dead.”
From this description it appears at once that the town has been removed from its original position, for the sail-pond, here mentioned, is now enclosed in Lord Hartland’s demesne, and the town now stands, not in the townland of Helnambuille, but that of Lisroyne.
There are now no remains of the round Firbolgian castle, nor of the Small Castle, nor Bawn with flankers; nothing but the house of Lord Hartland (i.e., Deerpark) The small lake lying in Farnbeg townland, in which the Strokestown river has its source, is said to be a fathomless pit.Several attempts been made by scientific men to fathom it, but in vain. It is a huge spring well! Do any of our Filmiliographers give any account of the noble family of Mahon of Strokestown? No man of talent has hitherto appeared amongst them, the people here hold them in great contempt, and a young man of the name (Mae An-Airchinnigh), whose ancestorheld the lands on which Strokestown stands, has more popular influence in the town than any of the Mahons! Is Mahon an English name? As the agent. Mr. Tom Conry, told me. Mr. D. Kelly., of Castlekelly, a relative of the Mahons, says that the tradition existing among the family themselves some years ago was that they were a branch of the MacMahons of Oriel, who joined King William’s Army. There were two brothersof the MacMahons in Ireland, who resolved to gain property by hook or by crook, and one of them joined the Army of James, while the other joined William, having previously agreed that whatever should be the chance of the war the one would share with the other.
William conquered, of course, and the brother, who was a drummer (John Fallon says that the first of the Mahons was certainly a captain in William’s Army) in his army, got some trifling property, and shared it with the brother. D. H. Kelly says that they had mills, and that by industry they crept up to be Squires of Strokestown. The grandfather of the present is lunatic was the first upon whom the title of lord was conferred, and strange to say, it becomes extinct, or rather obsolete, after the death of the present lunatic.
Can Mr. Petrie give me any clue to the history of this family? The old people here call them 'MAC Mo Thona's when speaking Irish, but this is scarcely a sufficient evidence to prove that they are of the race of the Collas.
I could not ascertain who the patron saint of the parish of Brumlin or Strokestown is, nor have I any record of it, except following reference in the Annals of the Four Masters at the year 1255 :
Mahon O'Melaghlin was slain at Buimlin " (Brmlinn). A very slender, meagre record! But how can we have a record of very place? No nation in Europe has, and it is hard to expect that the wild Irish should.
The small village near the bridge in the townland of Ballytoohey is now always called Termonbarry- in a curious way. First the bridge across the Shannon here was called Termonbarry Bridge for a long time, but now they call it simply Tcrmonbarry, though, strange to say, it was never in the tcrmon, being built the townland of Ballytohey (meaning. lay-town), which is only one in the parish not Bishop's land. How strangely names are often transferred. Kilbarry is the real locality of the termon of that saint.
I have made every possible search for the church anciently called Edardru.im in Hanlv's county, but have not succeeded in identifying it to a certainty. John Fallon, of Midgefield, who just called upon me, says that it can be. no other place than Drumdaff, in the parish of Kilgefin, where there is an old church ruins. Colgan speaks of it thus in Acta SS. p. 312: Eadardruim (the church of St. Deoradius), formerly a monastery, is now a parish church in the diocese of Alfin, in the country of Tuath-Ainlighe, as is stated in the catalogue of the churches of that diocese which was sent to me by the Right Reverend Father Boethius Egan, Bishop of Aflin, a most zelous lover of the antiquities of hs country and a graet patron of pious causes.”
It would appear from the list of authorities sent me for the spelling of Drum,
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near Athlone, was in O'Naghtan's, not O'Hanly's country, and it was called anciently Druini Dreastan and Druini-na-bfeadh, not Eadardruim.
Hubert Brannan, of Bellmount, has called here twice to see me, but I was unfortunately away into the country each time. His father has 1,000 acres for 4s. 6d. an acre, but all they retain as fee simple property is 56 Irish acres in the parish of Lissonuffy, in the country of Corcachlan. Hubert, though not so wicked, is nearly as unfortunate as the O'Hanlys. He got a very considerable fortune with his wife, and has very good land, but if he `Were possessed of the riches of Rothschild and got a restoration of all Corc-ach-land, he would be able to spend (squander) all, having so far retained the qualifications for which the bards praised the Irish chieftains.
GIDH FIL Moo TRUACIH DHA THURGNAMH Is ING URGNAMH DHA THARGNAMH.
O'Mulconry.
Which I translate briefly thus:
Had he the riches of the gorgeous East, He'd squander all at one great glorious feast.
(BRANAN signifies a raven.)
Long live the great and brave Mac Brannan,
The noble chief of old Corcachlan,
Who from his frontiers (the top of Slieve Baan) views the Shannon
Around whom flock the tall O'Shannans (Ui SIONDAIN).
The pious Doovhies and the Manans (St. Barry cursed this family and his curse remains) :
The fierce Mac Igoes (Oogers) and the Fanans,
Until the noble Shannon cease to flow,
Until old Baghna's mount shall sink below the Level of Conacia's rich green plain,
May Ona's heir be ever seen to reign. S. O'D.
Ida, Ona and Dofa were the ancestors of the three Tuaths; I have not the line of Ida :--
CLANN, BURANAIN BEODIIA Go MBRIGH
Is Ui MHAOILMHORDHA Go MOR GHNIOMH
CUIS MOLTA NA BH-FEADHNACH BH-FOLI.
AR CHORCA SHEALBHACH SEACHLONN.
Shane O'Dugan. -
There were two families of Laynes in this country, one English, and the other Firbolgian; the former left their name on Lanesborough, and the latter left a property to John Dalton, Esq. (48 Summerhill), which he lost by his' own folly.-Your obedient servant, JOHN O'DONOVAN.
Sunday, August 13th.
Yesterday, August 12th, I traversed the parish of Kiltrustan and visited the old church, of which a great portion is still standing. It is certainly very ancient, and was in its day a church of considerable extent and beauty. This is the second of the three churches which St. Patrick erected in the three Tuaths, or lordships, the first being Kill-Mor, or Cella-magna, lying in the Tuath calleded Tir-Briuin,na Sionna; this, called Kiltrustan, was in the Tuath called Corcaochland; the third is still to be looked for in Kinel-Dofa. I think Colgan is wrong in translating the original Irish of St. Evin and his commentators, where they these three churches. This Tripartite Life of St.Patrick was written in a most ancient dialect, and used as a class-book in the Bardic Schools of Ireland; and the original Irish was often glossed, modernized, paraphrased, and in many instances interpolated by later writers. So that it is not wondered at that Colgan should now and then mistake the meaning. I think, also, that he has not translated the passage about Corcaucuchland correctly, for I now see plainly from the lie of the country and the antiquity of the territorial names in this Corcaochland never took in any part of Magh-luig,and that therefore it never extended so far to the north as Tir-Ellill (Arrill), in the now County of Sligo, as Colgan's translation of the Tripartite would give us to understand.
In connection,with the old church of Kiltrustan, there is an old story still current in the country from which it can be inferred that St. Patrick was the founder of it. When that Apostle was converting the pagans of this part of Connaught, he met here in Corcaochland a pagan named Trostan, whom he converted; and when baptizing him in the open air, he (Patrick) wanted to stick his pastorial staff in the ground, but by some mistake or blunder, instead of ticking it in the around, where should he thrust the but in Trostan's foot, in which it remained firmly fixed. He went on with the ceremony, asking the convert if he believed in the unity and trinity of God, incarnation of Christ, in the unity, infallibility, etc. of the church. Poor Tostan all this time had the spike fixed in his foot, and he bore it patiently and with the enthusiasm of a Hindoo, believing it was part of the ceremony of baptism to have the Trosdam, or staff, stuck in his foot. When the ceremony was over, St, Patrick discovered his blunder, and expressed his admiration of Trostan’s patience and religious fortitude, and on the spot where such an instance of Christian patience occurred, he thought it should bode well for the future prosperity of the faith to erect a sacred edifice, which he thought prudent to name from the name of the convert, which happened, by chance, to be the Irish word for a staff--AMHRL ASBT in FILE.
“For Thrustan had Patrick's Thrustan thrust in His patient foot, from which the blood was bursting while Patrick, with the water of the fountain Made him a Saint who could remove a mountain.”
The same story is told in the lives of our glorious Apostle about Aengus, King of Munster, and a similar story is told at Struille, near Saul in the County of Down, but of a different person. Trostan was certainly the name of a man among the pagan Irish, and I did expect to find this name in the Pedigree of Mac Brannan, chief of Corcaochland, in which this church is situated; but no such name occurs in it, for Mac Brannan descends from Ono, the noble Druid who granted Imleach-Ona to St. Patrick, where he erected the church of Elphin. The following is the senior line* of the pedigree of Mac Brannan up to Ono, as given by Dudley Firbisse.
(1) Conor, (2) Shane, (3) Eaehmareach, i.e., Horseman; Dermot Bacach, 1377; (55) Eachmareach, 1319; (6) Con—Randel, 1256; (7) Eaehmarcach, (8) Gilchreese-Brannan, 1159 (9) Branan a quo. Mac Brannan, died 1120; (10) Dunshee (11) Morogh, 1088; (12) Gilchreest, (13) Echtierna, Lord Lord of the Horses (14) Adith, (15) Uroon, (16) Mulvihill, (17) Nuadat, (19) Ono, the noble Druid ayus frater Ida; (20) Erie, the Red; (22) Brian, ancestor of all the the Hy-Bruins and brother of Niall of the 9 Hostages; (23) Eochy Moyvain, Monarch of Ireland.
The last notice of Mac Brannan in the Annals Masters is at the year 1396; O'Conor Roe seems to have seized upon his territory shortly after this period. There is a holy well this parish which gives its name of Toberpatric in a town land, which affords another evidence that Kiltrustan was one of Patrick's churches, Inquisition 34. Elizabeth finds that the Rectory of Coreaghlane, in the Barony of Roscommon, extended into all the townlands of the parishes of Kiltrustan, and Clonfinloghe, and Templereogh. but I have not yet been able to ascertain what parish it is that is called Templereough in this Inquisition.
The parish of Killuckin, forming the south-eastern part of the Barony of Roscommon, is called by the Irish Kill-o-quin, but I
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* The name Throstan is still around this place, and in Ballintogher, Sligo.
Could not find out its patron saint. In this parish lies Ard-an-Choillin, the hill by the little wood, where a branch of the O’Conors had a mansion seat, but no ruins are visible there now but Raths. I abstracted the following references to this palce from the Four Masters:--
“1368. Teigh O’Conor was treacherously taken prisoner in his own house at Ard-an-Choillin by Roderic, the son or Turlogh, i.e., The O'Conor.
“388. Donnell O'Conor made an incursion into Machaire, Connacht, and burned Ard-an-Chollin and the island in Loch Cairgin (Loch of Cargin).
“1489. A dreadful battle between the O'Conors at Ard-an-Choillin
In this parish is also Failsc, said to have been the boundary between Magh-Naol and the Thuaths.
The parish of Kilcooley is called by the Irish Cill Cuile (cella Anguli), but I could find no monument to throw any light upon its history. Tradition makes it a church of St. Patrick, but vague tradition cannot be received when there is no monument, or stone, or even any regular legend to render it probable. There is a burial leacht or flag on the grave of the O’Connors here. The last person buried under this flag was Mary O’Conor, Drinane.
I find no locality in this parish celebrated in history, but Doire chuire Roboretum Corci, where the English came to a conference with Felim O'Conor, King of Connaught, 1262.
“The English of Ireland marched with a great army against Felim, the son of Charles, the Red-handed O'Conor. Upon hearing Felim, O'Conor sent off the greater number of the cows of Connaught into Tirconnell, and remained himself on Iris Saimher (at Ballyshannon) to defend his cows and his people. The English afterwards despatched messengers to him and his son with offers of peace, and they came to a conference with them at Athderryquirk, where they made peace with the English, but no hostages or pledges were given or received on -Four Masters.
There is a lough at Doire choire called Loch-na-fola, i.e., the Blood, from which it might, perhaps, be inferred that people did not at all times keep the peace or come upon terms of peace at the place, but it may have received an application from its having, like the Lachan Dere, near Elphin, assumed the colour of blood to forebode war and desolation to the inhabitants.
I have received theother half and am all right again.
Now for Kinel-Dofa
Your obedient servant,
John O’Donovan
After the most minute research I could discover no antiquity about Strokestown but the site of the Palace of Cloonfree. The town of Strokestown has been removed from its original position , as appears from the following description of it in 1683, by the Revd. John Keogh, of Cloonslanor:--
“As for Strokestown, it is in Irish called Belawhnamhully,
BEL AITH NA nBUILLE, word for word the pass (mouth) of the ford of strokes, there having been some strokes of battle given here heretofore, which gave denomination (i.e., name) to the place. ` Here was not long ago to be seen a r ound fort of stone., the wall whereof was ten foot in thick
Next to the fort a small stream but pretty deep (rising out of a little lake not far
from the town) is swallowed up into the ground and, passing underneath of the street, bubbles up again in several places out of the ground in great quantity, making a fair pond in the town and serving to turn three or four mills. There is in this town no considerable buildings only next the sail-pond (whereinto the waters spring out of the ground) where formerly was a little old castle. There is now a bawn with flankers, etc., etc.
"While I was writing this news was brought me: Mahon, the landlady of the place, was dead.”
From this description it appears at once that the town has been removed from its original position, for the sail-pond, here mentioned, is now enclosed in Lord Hartland’s demesne, and the town now stands, not in the townland of Helnambuille, but that of Lisroyne.
There are now no remains of the round Firbolgian castle, nor of the Small Castle, nor Bawn with flankers; nothing but the house of Lord Hartland (i.e., Deerpark) The small lake lying in Farnbeg townland, in which the Strokestown river has its source, is said to be a fathomless pit.Several attempts been made by scientific men to fathom it, but in vain. It is a huge spring well! Do any of our Filmiliographers give any account of the noble family of Mahon of Strokestown? No man of talent has hitherto appeared amongst them, the people here hold them in great contempt, and a young man of the name (Mae An-Airchinnigh), whose ancestorheld the lands on which Strokestown stands, has more popular influence in the town than any of the Mahons! Is Mahon an English name? As the agent. Mr. Tom Conry, told me. Mr. D. Kelly., of Castlekelly, a relative of the Mahons, says that the tradition existing among the family themselves some years ago was that they were a branch of the MacMahons of Oriel, who joined King William’s Army. There were two brothersof the MacMahons in Ireland, who resolved to gain property by hook or by crook, and one of them joined the Army of James, while the other joined William, having previously agreed that whatever should be the chance of the war the one would share with the other.
William conquered, of course, and the brother, who was a drummer (John Fallon says that the first of the Mahons was certainly a captain in William’s Army) in his army, got some trifling property, and shared it with the brother. D. H. Kelly says that they had mills, and that by industry they crept up to be Squires of Strokestown. The grandfather of the present is lunatic was the first upon whom the title of lord was conferred, and strange to say, it becomes extinct, or rather obsolete, after the death of the present lunatic.
Can Mr. Petrie give me any clue to the history of this family? The old people here call them 'MAC Mo Thona's when speaking Irish, but this is scarcely a sufficient evidence to prove that they are of the race of the Collas.
I could not ascertain who the patron saint of the parish of Brumlin or Strokestown is, nor have I any record of it, except following reference in the Annals of the Four Masters at the year 1255 :
Mahon O'Melaghlin was slain at Buimlin " (Brmlinn). A very slender, meagre record! But how can we have a record of very place? No nation in Europe has, and it is hard to expect that the wild Irish should.
The small village near the bridge in the townland of Ballytoohey is now always called Termonbarry- in a curious way. First the bridge across the Shannon here was called Termonbarry Bridge for a long time, but now they call it simply Tcrmonbarry, though, strange to say, it was never in the tcrmon, being built the townland of Ballytohey (meaning. lay-town), which is only one in the parish not Bishop's land. How strangely names are often transferred. Kilbarry is the real locality of the termon of that saint.
I have made every possible search for the church anciently called Edardru.im in Hanlv's county, but have not succeeded in identifying it to a certainty. John Fallon, of Midgefield, who just called upon me, says that it can be. no other place than Drumdaff, in the parish of Kilgefin, where there is an old church ruins. Colgan speaks of it thus in Acta SS. p. 312: Eadardruim (the church of St. Deoradius), formerly a monastery, is now a parish church in the diocese of Alfin, in the country of Tuath-Ainlighe, as is stated in the catalogue of the churches of that diocese which was sent to me by the Right Reverend Father Boethius Egan, Bishop of Aflin, a most zelous lover of the antiquities of hs country and a graet patron of pious causes.”
It would appear from the list of authorities sent me for the spelling of Drum,
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near Athlone, was in O'Naghtan's, not O'Hanly's country, and it was called anciently Druini Dreastan and Druini-na-bfeadh, not Eadardruim.
Hubert Brannan, of Bellmount, has called here twice to see me, but I was unfortunately away into the country each time. His father has 1,000 acres for 4s. 6d. an acre, but all they retain as fee simple property is 56 Irish acres in the parish of Lissonuffy, in the country of Corcachlan. Hubert, though not so wicked, is nearly as unfortunate as the O'Hanlys. He got a very considerable fortune with his wife, and has very good land, but if he `Were possessed of the riches of Rothschild and got a restoration of all Corc-ach-land, he would be able to spend (squander) all, having so far retained the qualifications for which the bards praised the Irish chieftains.
GIDH FIL Moo TRUACIH DHA THURGNAMH Is ING URGNAMH DHA THARGNAMH.
O'Mulconry.
Which I translate briefly thus:
Had he the riches of the gorgeous East, He'd squander all at one great glorious feast.
(BRANAN signifies a raven.)
Long live the great and brave Mac Brannan,
The noble chief of old Corcachlan,
Who from his frontiers (the top of Slieve Baan) views the Shannon
Around whom flock the tall O'Shannans (Ui SIONDAIN).
The pious Doovhies and the Manans (St. Barry cursed this family and his curse remains) :
The fierce Mac Igoes (Oogers) and the Fanans,
Until the noble Shannon cease to flow,
Until old Baghna's mount shall sink below the Level of Conacia's rich green plain,
May Ona's heir be ever seen to reign. S. O'D.
Ida, Ona and Dofa were the ancestors of the three Tuaths; I have not the line of Ida :--
CLANN, BURANAIN BEODIIA Go MBRIGH
Is Ui MHAOILMHORDHA Go MOR GHNIOMH
CUIS MOLTA NA BH-FEADHNACH BH-FOLI.
AR CHORCA SHEALBHACH SEACHLONN.
Shane O'Dugan. -
There were two families of Laynes in this country, one English, and the other Firbolgian; the former left their name on Lanesborough, and the latter left a property to John Dalton, Esq. (48 Summerhill), which he lost by his' own folly.-Your obedient servant, JOHN O'DONOVAN.