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Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. A copy is to be found in Trinity 

 College Library, and another in the possession of the Rev. 

 Patrick Wall, P. P. of Mothill, in the Diocese and County 

 of Waterford, to whose kindness for the use of it I am much in- 

 debted. — The second manuscript Dictionary, alluded to, is in Irish 

 and English. It was compiled about the year 1 739 byTeige O'Neagh- 

 ten, and is preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. — 

 The third Manuscript Dictionary was compiled, in English, Latin 

 and Irish, by a Mr. Crab, who lived near Dublin about the year 

 1750. Proposals and specimens of this work were printed in that 

 year, but the author had no encouragement to proceed. It was in 

 the Library of General Vallancey, after whose decease it was pur- 

 chased for Doctor Adam Clarke, and brought to England. 



I shall now return to my principal object, which is that of the 

 printed works of this nature, and of these the first that appeared was, 



A new Vocabulary or Expositor of the Irish Language. — 

 Octavo. — Louvain, 1643. 



This Vocabulary was compiled by the Rev. Michael O'Clery, one 

 of the annalists of Donegall, or the " Four masters," and an excellent 

 scholar and antiquary. Though the number of words is few, yet it is 

 highly estimated byLexicographers from the propriety of the selection, 

 and the accuracy of the explanations. It gives the Etymologies of 

 many words, and examples to shew their meanings. The nature of the 

 work is well explained in the Irish Preface prefixed to it, which we 

 shall here translate. 



"Be four things known to those who are resolved to read 

 the following little work. First ; that we have not inserted 



