301 
Translated by our learned fellow-countryman, O’ Donovan :— 
The Cathach of Columbhille was also taken from them, and Magroarty, 
the keeper of it, was slain. 
Two years after this battle the Cathach was restored to the O’Do- 
nells (ad an. 1499); and in 1567 the same annalists chronicle a battle 
between the O’Neills and O’Donells at Farsetmore, a low-water ford 
near Letterkenny, in which, amongst those that fell, was— 
Mapspabancaig asa mbaoi 1omcoimhed cataise 
colaim cille. 
Rendered in O’Donovan’s translation— 
“¢ Magroarty, who had the custody of the Cathach of St. Columbkille.” 
Almost contemporary with this Marianus was Donnall Mac Robar- 
taigh, St. Columba’s successor at Kells, whose name is engraved on the 
silver case of the Cathach,* and whose death is recorded by the Four 
Masters at 1098.+ By them he is called O’Robhartaigh ; but this in- 
terchange of Mac and O’ is common in early records. Dermot 0’ Robh- 
artaigh, Abbot of Durrow, diedin 1190. Ballymagroarty, in the parish 
of Drumhome, county of Donegal, is so called from Baile-mece-Robhar- 
taich, being originally the possession of Mac Robhartach, keeper of the 
Cathach; and Ballymagrorty, in the parish of Templemore or Derry, 
has the same origin. In 1609, the Inquisition of Donegal finds the 
‘Tsland of Torro [Tory], whereof O’Rohertye is both herenagh and 
corbe.”’{ Among the general pardons in the same year, various mem- 
bers of the clan are mentioned under the forms I/*Ruertie, Magroertie, 
Mgroertie, Magrertee, and Roertie.§ At the present time the name has 
been moulded into O’ Rafferty, Rafferty, and IM Grotty. 
The following addition to the recommendation of the Council, 
adopted by the Academy on November 380, 1854, was adopted by the 
Academy :— 
‘¢That if any Member of the Council, whose name is printed in italics 
in the ballot-lists, be re-elected by the Academy, he shall be considered 
the junior Member of that Committee,” with the following addition :— 
“That this rule shall apply to the last election.” 
* See Reeves’s ‘‘ Adamnani Columba,” p. 319. 
t Ibid., p. 285. 
f Ul. Inquis. Appendix, No. V.; Pat. Rolls, Jac. I., p. 382a. 
§ Pat. Rolls, Jac. I., pp. 1515, 1524. 
