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medico (?), Donate filio Odonis U'bruin laico (?), Odone Oifeialy, Corniaeo 

 O'bryun, Magomo O'brayn, AVillelaio M'AUuairo, cleiicis Fernensis diocesis, 

 et aliis qiiam pluribus. 



Datum apud Iniscorthy tercio die mensis Apiilis anno domini MCCCCLXxv. 



The Kavanagb t«rritory included the bill country between co. Carlow and co. 

 Wexford ; and the larger part of the possessions of the abbey of Duiske were in 

 this region on the Carlow side. Hitherto, the benefactors of the convent bad been 

 the Anglo-Norman settlers and their descendants ; the convent had been estab- 

 lished by Englishmen and for Englishmen. It was only by degrees that it gained 

 the allegiance of the Irishry. We have seen the direction in which its sympathies 

 were moving more than a century before the date of this charter ;' but now we find 

 that it is actually taken under the protection of the Kavauaghs and their Irish 

 friends, who attest the grant. 



Donnell llcaijh- Kavamujh was a direct descendant of Donnell Kavanagh, son of 

 Dermot MacMurrough, Strongbow's father-in-liw (see p. 6), and styled himself 

 " Lord of all Leinstcr." He bad, as chief of his elan, great influence in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Duiske or Graiguenamanagh ; and his protection and patronage must 

 have been of immense service to the abbey, quite irrespective of the value of his 

 annual grant.' 



This charter was printed in 1883 by Rev. James Graves,' who gave therewith 

 an illustration of Donnell Reagh Kavanagh's "greater seal," which is still 

 attached. The legend round the seal is : 



SIGILLVM DO.NAU. MEICMVRACBADA RKGIS LAGEIE. 



This grant which was made " pro salute animae suae" was executed not long 

 before the death of Donnell Keagli, which took place in HTti. He left several sons. 

 Gerald h'avaiiagh, who attests the grant, became in his turn titular "lord of 

 Leinstcr," and died in 1522.^ The other son here named, Charles Kacan(ujh, was 

 afterwards the last abbot of Duiske (see p. 168). 



The witnesses are all Irish, from the O'Byrne, O'Bolger, and O'Ferrally clans. 

 Dermot O'Bolijer (or O'Bolgy) was rector of Corn Buada, which is probably to be 

 identified -with Comew, in co. Wicklow. 



105. 



Record of appeal in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice's by Henry, abbot 

 of Duiske, as to the parish church of Offcrlane, which had been trans- 

 ferred and granted by William, prior of Aghmacart, and Thomas 

 Mishell, canon of Ossory, by authority of pretended papal lettere, 

 to Patrick Mac Gillapatrick : 



' See p. 136. •' Reagh - Rinhhofh = fuju:\u, or "swarthy." 



' There is a note of this charter in K (where it is dated incorrectly 1485), which gives 



the grant as " 8 denarios quolibet annu. " That would be verj' different from eight pence 



for each plough working on Kavanagh land, as the chartc-r slates. 

 ' Jonnuil R.S.A I. vi, pt. i, p. 24. ^ DuwIuik's AiifiaU. 



