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 IX. 



Translation. — Mortgage of Land. — No date. 



This is the amount of the mortgage which Donagh O'lvur has 

 for the half quarter of Kill, the quarter of Each [ ] to wit 12 



milch cows and two bulled cows. The witnesses are Donogh 

 Mac Turlough Mac Murogh, Moriertagh Mac Torlogh, John Mac 

 Sheeda Mac Owen, Sheeda junior, Eugene O'Conary, Donagh 

 O'lvur and his son Donagh junior. These are also witnesses, 

 viz. the two sons of Malachy Mac Con, to wit, Loghlau and 

 Rorey and Judith O'Malley ; that, with the consent of the children 

 of Malachy Mac Con himself, he should not have it in his power 

 to give the said land for a higher mortgage to any other person 

 from Donagh O'lvur except to his own descendants, and that the 

 power of redeeming it should be vested in the posterity of Mac Con 

 and Conor Mac Torlogh O'Brien chief of Thomond.* 



X. 



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 bYjn bo j<x;b bo pea/iju;' 2t)<xe Concuba;;t 2t)e;c roao;l;'e<JLcl<x;n, <jlcu^ a hficji le^ 

 CO b<X)le ) 5eacb<x;n <x cean L<\0)f), <xcuf jfc f) b«;le jje^ca;! bo tujcjm uaba <yn 



* Otherwise called, Conor Mor na Sron, who, " immediately after the death of his brother 

 Teige an Chomhaid, was inaugurated king of Thomond, according to the Mulconnerys, A. D. 

 1468. In the last year of this Prince's reign, which w^s in HOe, he fought an obstinate battle 

 against Gerald Fitzgerald Earl of Kildare, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, near the castle of 

 Bally-Hicky, which that Earl took soon after by assault, together with the castle of Fiadii-Bog 

 and other Castles in Thomond, belonging to Florence Mac Namara. See the annals of Sir James 

 Ware at this year. This prince died in the same year 1496, and left posterity who were called 

 the O'Briens of Sealuidhe in the county of Clare. The chief representative of that family, as 

 I am credibly informed, is Morrogh O'Brien, who now lives near Ennis in the said county." — 

 Vallancey, Collect. Vol. I. p. 641. 



