266 Mr. PETEIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



Mac Firbis; and the original autograph of this translator is preserved among 

 Ware's manuscripts, in the British Museum, No. LI. of the Clarendon Collection, 

 4796. In this document, which contains an account of the various lands granted 

 to the See of Cluain by the several provincial kings and principal chieftains, as 

 a purchase for the right of themselves and their descendants to be interred in 

 a portion of the cemetery appropriated to their use, the following notice is 

 given of the payment made by Mac Carthy More (Fineen) for the place of 

 sepulture of the Mac Carthys : 



" Thus hath Mac Carthy .i. Great, Finyn McCarthy, paid for his sepulture, viz. for the pro- 

 portion of nyne cells, or chapels, 48 dales for every chapell : the chapells were these, Killkyran 

 in Desmond, Killcluain, and Killcorpain, and Killatleibhe, and the other five kills, or cells, cannott 

 be reade ; and there was so a discord between Gerald na Corn, from whom the Geraldins discend, 

 and Macarty More, that the said Gerald tooke choice place of Macarty in Tempol! Finyn in Cluain, 

 and hath given for the same, in Dun Domnall in Conallagha, sixe dayes there and six dayes given in 

 mortmaine by Kydelagh to the church of Dun Domnall in Kidelagh, his owne towne, so as there are 

 1 2 daies in Dun Domnall east and west, and the head of a mill and the greate Hand in mortmaine 

 to y e said church, and y e parte of the waterweares belonging to the greate Hand is the black 

 weare, and in the parish of Dun Domnall, are but sixe quarters, or sixe plowlands, and the whole 

 doth belong to y e church, together w th all kind of tithe in those sixe plowlands ; and allso y e 

 baptising ; and the said Gerald payed out of his owne part of Athfara four fatt beeves and 48 daies 

 in Killcluayn, whereof there are 4 daies in Bregoig, and 48 daies in Kill Dacire, and 48 daies in 

 Killcyugh, and 48 daies in Kill Drochuyll, and sixe daies in Crumaigh, and the baptising, together 

 w th the tithes of that towne of Cruinaigh ; and Gerald gave this in mortmain to y c church called 

 Teampull Finyn in Cluain.'' 



From the preceding document it might very naturally be concluded, that 

 the church called Temple Fineen owed its name and erection to a Fineen 

 Mac Carthy More ; and such seems to have been the inference drawn by the 

 learned Sir James Ware, who, in a ground plan of the cemetery of Clonmac- 

 noise, calls this church Temple Finian, or Mac Carthy's Church : and hence the 

 general supposition that it owed its origin to a chief of that family, as stated in 

 the published pedigree of the Count Mac Carthy, compiled by Monsieur Laine, 

 genealogist to Charles X. of France. If then such an inference were correct, 

 it would follow that this church could not be of earlier date than the thirteenth 

 century, as, in the first place, the epithet More, or Great, which was applied 

 to the chief of the senior branch of the Mac Carthys, to distinguish him from 

 the chief of another branch, who was called Mac Carthy Reagh, was not so 



