8 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



must suppose Huamacada in the pricis to be a corruption of Hua murcliada, or 

 O'Morchoe. 



Donchad Huainedayg perhaps represents Donchad Hua-Cinnedigli or 

 O'Kennedy. 



Diarmaid Hiiafiacham was probably Diarmaid Hua Kiachain (O'Kegan). 

 Maurice Regan was the name of King Dermot's secretary. 



DuUayng mac Legussa may stand for ' Dunlang mac Laigsigh.' The ' Laigsi ' 

 were the men of Leis, and ' mac Laigsigh ' is probably a mere patronymic. 



Our next reference to the Abbey of Killenny is found in an entry in the 

 Extracts from the Register of Duiske (E) : 



" Bulla confirniat terram et priuilegium mouasterii Sanctae Mariae Vallis 

 Dei instituti Cisterc: per Luciuni I'apani. Dat. Yeletri per manum Alberti 

 Presb. Cardinalis et Caucellarii 15 Kal. Mart. Indict. 1, Incarnationis 

 Domiuice an. 1182, Pontificatus Lucii P. iii an. 2." 



This Charter granted by Pope Lucius III to the monastery of Killenny 

 or " Vallis Dei " is not now extant, but reference is made to it in no. ii. 



In tiie same Extracts from tiie Kegister of Duiske (E, F, L) mention is 

 made of a Charter given about the year 1200 by Miles fitz Bishop to the 

 abbot' of Killenny, granting him the town of Techomichan. This Miles or 

 Milo was the son of David Fitz Gerald, bishop of St. David's (who was the 

 son of Gerald Fitz Walter, ConsUible of Pembroke, by Nesta, daughter of 

 Rhys ap Tewdur, Prince of South Wales). Milo fitz Bishop or fitz David 

 came to Ireland with tlie first band of Anglo-Normans in 1169, and Earl 

 Richard de Clare (Strongbow) made him a grant of Overk in Ossory.' He 

 appears as a witness to the Charter granted to the city of Kilkenny' by 

 William Marshal the Elder (Earl Richard's son-in-law), and also to the 

 Chartei-s nos. 3, 4, below. 



His Charter to the abbot of Killenny, no longer extant, was witnessed by 

 Felix, bishop of Ossory (1178-1202); Albin, bishop of Ferns (1186-1223); 

 John, bishop of Leighlin (1198-1201), and Geoffrey, seneschal of Leinster. 



' The precis in F has ' X"« Ab. de Valle Dei,' which has been read ' to the tetith abbot 

 of do Valle Dei.' But it is unusual in grants to specify the place in the succession list of 

 an abbot or prior, and it is probable that a proj»er name, such as ChrUtinm, is concealed 

 behind the contraction. There could hardly have been ten abbots before J201. 



2 See Burtchaell, The Geraldinet of Co. Kilkenny, Journal R.S.A.I., 1893, p. 179, and 

 CM. A. ii, 406. 



^ Chartae, PriviUgia, <fcc., p. 33. 



