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APPENDIX. 



Macnamaea's Kental in Vol. XY., Trans. Pt.I.A., p. 45 (Antiqui- 

 ties). 1390. 



"This is tlie sum of the Lordship of Macnamara — i.e. Maccon 

 {circa 1390), mac Conuiheadha mac Maccon (living 1333), mac Loghlan 

 (executed 1313), mac Conmheadha more (died 1306); according to 

 the testimony of the stewards of the Rodan family, and of the mar- 

 shal of the country, and to the will of their father and grandfather 

 out of Tuathmore ; and the said stewards are Philip O'Rodan and 

 Conor 0'E.odan, descendants of the red steward." In the abstract we 

 may state that the Tuathmore (most of the baronies of Bunratty) 

 rents are 168 ounces,^ and food to Macnamara, and 31 J ounces to his 

 Avife ("Lady's rent"). In Tuathnahavon (district near Sixmilebi'idge) 

 56 ounces (the stewards being the posterity of Mahon Finn O'Rodan). 

 In O'Flinn (district near Kilkishen) 105 ounces and 1 groat to Mac- 

 namara, 1 ounce to his wife (stewards, the Lavelle family). In Glen 

 (Glenomra) 126 ounces and food on the free land once a year. In 

 Congalach (Ogonnelloe) 112 ounces; food between Christmas and 

 Shrove on 5 townlands, and once a year on the free lands (stewards, 

 the O'Rodans). O'Rongaile (Kilnoe and Killuran) 112 ounces; food 

 between Christmas and Shrove on 7 townlands, and food once a year 

 on the free lands. In Eactaoi (Feakle district) 140 ounces to Mac- 

 namara, 1 ounce to his wife, and food from Shrove to Easter. Total, 

 Macnamara's rent, 819 ounces 1 groat, and food rights as above; 

 "Lady's rent," 33J ounces. 



iNauisiTioN taken at Galway, 27th January, 1585, before Sir 

 Richard Bingham, Knight, Chief Commissioner of Connaught (Chief 

 Remembrancer's Rolls), on the death of John MacNamara Fynn. 



Macnamara and his ancestors received yearly rents on specified 

 lands in Clare and on Moyluin Island, " near Limerick, the freeholder 

 whereof was always to maintain and keep a cot or boat upon his own 

 proper cost, and charges to serve the same Macnamara up and down 

 the river Shannon"; or failing this, 12 shillings per annum. The 

 Inquisition then gives a long list of lands on which the Chief's rent 

 was chargeable. Macnamara's ancestors always took, from certain 



* Silver, probably paid in cattle. 



