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page 282 note 1 Cal.justic. rolls, Ire., i. 335.
page 282 note 2 In 1369 the manor of Sligo and other de Burgh manors in Connacht were said to be occupied by ‘ Edmund de Burgo, knight, and other rebels of the Lord King both English and Irish ‘ (Cal. Ormond deeds, ii. 334). Cathal Óg Ó Conchobhair died of plague there in 1362 (O'Rorke, Sligo, i. 104).
page 282 note 3 The Uf Chonchobhair of Cairbre were descended from Brian Luighneach, son of Toirdhealbhach Mór Ó Conchobhair.
page 282 note 4 Ann. Conn. (R.I.A., MS. 1219 (c iii 1)), f. 63a.
page 282 note 5 ASM.
page 283 note 1 A.F.M.
page 283 note 2 A.U.
page 283 note 3 A.F.M.
page 283 note 4 Ibid.
page 283 note 5 Ibid.
page 283 note 6 Ibid.
7 Ibid., 1532. Hogan, James, ’ The Irish law of kingship – ‘, in Proc. R.I.A., xl, sect, c, p. 224.Google Scholar
page 283 note 8 ASM.
page 283 note 9 S.P. Hen. Fill, iii, 136. L & P Hen. viii, xiii, pt. i, no. 114.
page 283 note 10 Wilson, , Beginnings mod. Ire., p. 122.Google Scholar
page 284 note 1 Hayes McCoy, G. A., ’ Unpublished letters of King James v of Scotland relating to Ireland, in Anal. Hib., no. 12, pp. 180-1.Google Scholar
page 284 note 2 L. & P. Hen. Fill, xiii, pt. i, no. 77
page 284 note 3 Ibid., Hen. VIII, no. 1138.
page 284 note 4 S.P., iii. 44.
page 284 note 5 Ibid., p. 52.
page 284 note 6 Ibid.
page 284 note 7 A.L.C.
page 284 note 8 Ibid.
page 285 note 1 L. & P Hen. VIII, xiii, pt. ii, no. 159.
page 285 note 2. A.F.M.
page 285 note 3 S.P Hen. VIII., iii. 139, n.
page 286 note 1 A.F.M.
page 286 note 2 R.I.A. cat. Irish MSS., fasc. xxiii, p. 2847.
page 286 note 3 R.I.A., MS. 23 H 38 contains a report of a committee appointed by R.I.A. in 1846 to inspect Sir William Betham's Irish MSS., which states that the committee would offer £50 for ‘ LXXII vellum small folio [containing] poems on Butler &c Transfer of the Castle of Sligo to T O. Conor Sligo, dated 1539 ’ .
page 287 note 1 A copy of the ‘ Linea antiqua ‘ preserved in the National Library also contains this translation ﹛Anal. Hib.﹜ no. 10, p. 291). As the MSS. have been removed for safety for the duration of the war I have not been able to consult it.
page 287 note 2 O'Conor Don, Charles Owen, The O’Conors of Connaught, pp. 180-1.Google Scholar
page 287 note 3 A.F.M., ed. Owen Connellan (1846), pp. 521–2. Conellan's translation was printed by Wood-Martin, , History of Sligo, i. 279-81.Google Scholar
page 288 note 1 Sic; read anmain.
page 288 note 2 Leg. ’ oighribh ’ na dhiaigh ’ . Here the MS. has been worn ; the space affected is the equivalent of about eight letters.
page 289 note 1 It is impossible to read this name; but it is not that of any of the other members of the Donegal community mentioned above.
page 289 note 2 Lit. ‘ now and again ’ .
page 290 note 1 Lit. ‘ now and again ’ .
page 290 note 2 Lit. ’ if it should be in mind ’
page 290 note 3 ‘ hired soldiers ’
page 290 note 4 ‘ billeting ’ , ‘ maintenance ’
page 290 note 5 Lit. ’ townland ’ ; this may be some form of landgable (a tax or rent issuing out of land ; a quit rent for the site of a house, or the land whereon it stood) such as was paid by the citizens of Dublin under a charter of King John, 57 Rep. D.K.P.R.I., p. 569.
page 290 note 6 Lit. ‘ in church or state ’
page 291 note 1 or ‘ of prohibition ’ .
page 292 note 1 W M. Brady, Episcopal succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, i. 133 ; Conrad Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, iii. 340.
page 292 note 2 L. & P Hen. VIII, xiii, pt. i, nos. 76–7.
page 292 note 3 J. B. Leslie, Derry clergy and parishes, p. 30 (from Cromer's Register).
page 292 note 4 Brady, , Episcopal succession, i, 307 Google Scholar; Hierarchia medii aevi, iii, 299.
page 292 note 5 Anal. Hib., no. 12, pp. 179–80.
page 292 note 6 Ibid., p. 181.
page 293 note 1 Brady, , Episcopal succession, i. 307 Google Scholar
page 293 note 2 Walsh, Paul, ‘ The septs of Muintear Ghallchubhair ‘ in Ir. Book Lover, xxvii. (1940), 194 – 200 Google Scholar.
page 293 note 3 De Annatis Hiberniae, i. 226. L. & P Hen. Fill, xiii, pt. ii, no. 159.Anal. Hib., xii. 180. S.P Hen. Fill, iii. 139, n. Ir. Book Lover, xxvii. 197. Fr. Gwynn points out that – ‘ Sliocht Aodha ‘ and ‘ Sliocht an Easbuig ‘ were usually at enmity with one another.
page 294 note 1 Walsh, Paul, The Ó Cléirigh family of Tir Conaill, pp. 11 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 294 note 2 Ibid, p. 12.
page 294 note 3 Tomás Ó Cléirigh, ’ A poem book of the O Donnells', in Éigse, i. 58. Cf. Anal. Hib., no. 8, pp. 396–402.
page 294 note 4 Walsh, op cit., pp. 5, 6.
page 294 note 5 I have to thank Mr. Colm Ó Lochlainn for permitting me to refer to ‘ The learned family of Mac an Bhaird ’ , a chapter in Irish men of learning, a forthcoming book of essays by the late Fr. Paul Walsh, to be published shortly.
page 295 note 1 The following are some of the MSS. in which the poem is preserved : Book of O'Conor Don, 186a ; Book of O Donnell's daughter, ff. 13r-15r ; Nat. Lib. Gaelic MS. 167, p. 94.
page 295 note 2 O'Reilly, , ‘ Irish writers ‘ in Trans. Ibemo-Celtic Soc, vol. i. (1820).Google Scholar
page 295 note 3 Ed. Laimhbheartach Mac Cionnaith, Diogkluim Dána, p. 145.
page 295 note 4 A.F.M. ; Éigse, i. 60.
page 295 note 5 Mr. Séan Ó Domhnaill points out that he was an uncle of Maghnus, being a son of his grandfather Aodh Ruadh. See Anal. Hib., no. 8, p. 381.
page 295 note 6 The Rev. Brendan Jennings, O.F.M., who kindly contributed data on the Donegal monastery is of opinion that five would be a very small community indeed ; in addition to priests there would be lay-brothers, and probably student-clerics and novices.
page 295 note 7 Anal. Hib., no. 6, p. 169.
page 295 note 8 His terms of office were 1513–19, 1524–7, 1532–4.
page 295 note 9 Anal. Rib., no. 6, pp. 41–2. Cf. p. 183 where 1547 is given for his death.
page 296 note 1 S.P. Hen. VIII, ii. 151 (Cat. Carew MSS., i. 43).
page 296 note 2 S.P Hen. VIII, iii. 318.
page 296 note 3 L. & P Hen. VIII, xix, pt. i, no. 840 (but corrected in the index to 'Ó Siagail – ‘).
page 296 note 4 Cal Pat. Rolls, Ire. Hen. VIII-Eliz., i. iii.
page 296 note 5 Ware, , Antiquities of Ireland, ed. Harris, , 1764, p. 268.Google Scholar
page 296 note 6 S.P Hen. Fill, iii. 139, n. As Fr. Gwynn points out, this explains the absence from among the signatories of these prominent supporters of Ó Domhnaill.