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be pn cu)njm]r) m cCnxxn cebn« fjn comr^ta ido L«;me ocuf mo ^e<xl<x <x;i <xn y^;i;beAn 



his 



Edmd. + Mac Swyny, 



mark. 

 Being present, Teige Mac Brody.* 



Finis Padrycke. 



XXII. 



Translation. — Conveyance of Land. — No date. 



Be it known unto all who shall read and hear this writing, that 

 I Edmond roe, son of Gilla duff Mac Sweeny from Killkee in the 

 county of Clare, gentleman, in consideration of a certain sum of 

 money, which I have received from my honourable Lord the Earl 

 of Thomond on the day of writing this deed, and for many other 

 good and lawful causes, do give up my own right and title in the 

 Rath, i. e. the half quarter of the townland of Dunbegg, which 

 meareth by the pool of Gaethboy on the South, and by Lake 

 Margaige on the North, by the foot of Cree-duffe at the entrance 

 of Island Mac Ulga on the East, and by Camannafeamny on the 

 West, to said Earl. I assign with this writing the aforesaid land 

 with all its grass and moor, and wood and arable land, and water 

 and every other emolument and profit appertaining thereto, unto 



* A celebrated Irish Bard, and chief Poet of Donogh Earl of Thomond. He is also known to 

 Irish scholars by the name of Teige M'Daire. Several fine poems of his composition are pre- 

 served in one of the most valuable collections of Irish poetry extant, well known by the name of 

 the " Book of O'Gara," in the possession of the writer hereof. They are of that class, wJiich, 

 according to Spencer " savoured of sweet wit and good invention," and are highly worthy of 

 publication. One only of his productions, a didactic poem addressed to Earl Donogh on his 

 electionto the sovereignty of Thomond, has been published, with spirited translations in Latin 

 and English, by the late ingenious Theophilus O 'Flanagan, in the Transactions of the Gaelic So;> 

 ciety, Dublin. 



