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m*c ro<xtj<xmn<x 2t)ecn<xiT)<Xft(Xb : <icaf join cam^f bon<x;U o;^ baccu;^ tx^ oin peci/ionn 

 <x^ mauix cujfte ;io;n commb;icijC;iettc <x/- u<x;b, <xcu;i" ba cu;/te coit)m<x;c ;n j:e^;io;n pn 

 bf 4 j<x;l bo ixh pn C^teaclujje, <icu^ jdw nea/it <x cu/i <xm<xc <x^ cum majt <x leoi^r-u; jc 

 pejn ccuf <i;c; bo t:<xb<x;/it bo <xri f<x. ;n mba;le <x ft>]-^. )f )<ycfl«.n coni<i;U <xn cun/ta 

 pB .J. bj<x <x;t vuf, c-^iif ^&<xr)-^<xr> COac Cujlajn, <x buj ; b;i;<x;n, Ajuy C10u;^;y" O'CDaojI- 

 coflftj/ie <i buc <fo;p Caljan Cuabmuirxxn, <xc<x^ ojlac an CDe;fte <x buc Ccit^dc 

 Lujmne, <xca^ bonall 0'b;tj4;n m*/t a;<;i<x;b <xcu^ mft;i ;^l<xn comftjU an cun;iapn <xtu^u. 



XII. 



Translation. — Deed of Agreement and Award. — No date. 



This is the covenant of Conmara Mac Donald, i. e. Donogh 

 Mac Conmara and Daniel oge O'Kearny with each other, con- 

 cerning the quartermire of Gurtinaithcailey, viz. Daniel oge to 

 give him this consideration for it with its woods,* underwoods and 

 barren tracts, viz. 1 1 marks which were due unto Dominick White 

 upon it, and which Daniel oge should pay unto said Dominick for 

 said Donagh Mac Conmara on account of said quarter. Further 

 demands of said Daniel oge upon said Mac Conmara Mac Donald 

 are for many securities entered into for him, and many debts paid, 

 and many loans given to and for his use. The said Daniel oge 

 and Donogh agreed to abide by the award of Maurice O'Maoilco- 

 nary and Teige Mac Philip finn and Donald derg and Richard 

 O'Kearny between them. The award made is as follows : Donagh 

 Mac Conmara to receive 15 marks, for which he was to give the 



* The western parts of Ireland, even those districts most exposed to the rage of the Atlantic- 

 storms, were formerly better wooded than the interior of the country is at the present day. In 

 Shaw Mason's Statistical Survey of Ireland we find, " that almost the entire country about 

 Ennistymon (in the west of the County Clare,) was, within the recollection of an old man aged 

 one hundred, who died thirty or forty years ago, (1810) covered with woods, mostly oak 

 abd ash full grown, and that he frequently shot wild pheasants in those woods-" — Vol. I. p. 485. 



