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Mac Shane off the children of John Mac Mahon : Furthermore 

 three marks that had been in mortgage on the land of the family of 

 Mac Shane which they paid without any witness ; and Donat 

 O'Brien awarded that the land should be redeemed by the children 

 of John Mac Conmara ; and they have agreed to all those condi- 

 tions. The witnesses of this covenant are Donat O'Brien and 

 Donald Mac Shane Mac Donald and Mahon Mac Conmedha and 

 Donald reavagh Mac Rorey. Those debts are still due to the 

 children of Mac Shane Mac Conmara : and also eleven cows 

 levied by said Donald Mac Shane of the same Eric upon the Keilly 

 family and upon Daniel Buidhe, which are due to said Daniel by the 

 children of said John Mac Conmara ; and 23d. to be paid by Honor, 

 daughter of Sheeda, for Teige of Buaile, due twenty years without 

 being paid, and fourteen ounces, being the price of a horse which John 

 Mac Conmara sold unto Donald Mac Shane, due without interest, 

 and seven sheep to be given to Donald Mac Shane by Honor 

 daughter of Sheeda, and they are due without interest. Those 

 debts are due unto John oge Mac Conmara Mac Donald. Half a 

 quartermire* to be reserved out of the share of John, son of 

 Mac Shane, in mortgage, and the amount of the mortgage is thirty- 

 two cows. This is the manner that John Mac Conmara is to 

 discharge that mortgage, viz. nineteen cows unto Teige Mac 

 Loghlan, and eight cows unto the children of Conmara Mac Donald, 

 and-f- seven cows unto the children of John Mac Conmara. — 



'XV. that pa3rments by the ounce were very common. In the venerable and magnificent 

 MS. copy of the Gospels preserved in Trinity College Library, and said to have belonged to St. 

 Columkille, there appears an entry that Moriertagh O'Laughlin king of Ireland granted a parcel 

 of land to the monastery of Ardbraccan, in perpetuity, at ayearly rent of three ounces of gold — See 

 Vallancey's Collectanea, Vol. III. , 



• The same as Cartron. 



+ In all thirty-four cows. It is probable that the two additional cows were for interest. >. 



