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is doubtless the same person ; as also Tuileagna lluadh '0 Maoilchonaire,' 

 author of a poem on Fiacha (mac Aodha) 'OBroiri (H. ]. 14, fo. 108a).- 



8. " Eory Kyngy, rymor," 23 Feb., 1573 [no. 2209]. Buaidhrt 

 '0 Cionga, of Co. Westmeath or neighbourhood (Mac Eochagd,in's country 

 probably). In an earlier Fiant (no. 59, 1 ApL, 1559) " Eory Kenga," 

 who may well be the same man, is pardoned as one of the followers of 

 " Brassell Shennaghe, alias Foxe, chief of his nation.'' ^ 



9. "Derbe M'^Cragh m^Donogh, of Mountayne castell, yeoman, 

 John m'Enas M'Cragh, rymor," 10 May, 1573 [no. 2272]. Sean (mac 

 Aonghusa) Mac Craith, of Co. Waterford.* We find a namesake, who may 

 well be the same man, living at Burges* (near Clogheen, in the south of 

 Co. Tipperary), in 1601, viz., "John m'Enes M'Craghe, of Bureisee " 

 [no. 6564], otherwise "John M'Cragh m'Eneas, of Burgeise, gent." 

 [no. 6565]. « 



10. " Meolmory m^Enish Hernane, of Sronyll, co. Tipperary, Faraghell 

 m°Meolmory Hernane, Mac Crah Hernane, and Aherny Hernane, of 

 the same, rhymors," 12 Sept., 1577 [no. 3102]. Fearchar'' {mac Maolmuire) 

 '0 Hifearndin,^ Mac-raitli '0 Hifearndin, and Aithirne '0 Hife,arndin, of 



' To this Tuileagna Ruadh is further ascribed (wrongly ?) the poem Cuir srian rem 

 chorp, a Ghoimdhe in O'Con. lion's MS., fo. 56b. 



^ The name Tuileagna (like Torna) was a very common one in thi.s family, and it is 

 not always easy to discriminate between the different members who bore it. A note in 

 English written by TuUy Conry (Tuileagna 'O Maolohonaire) is preserved in Laud 610 

 (ZCP. viii. 181). " Tullius Conry" was teacher in the diocese of Clogher early in the 

 seventeenth century (Archiv. Hib. ii, pp. 21, 23, 28). Somewhat later flourished 

 Tuileagna 'O Maolchonaire, O.S.F., " seancha coitchenn 'Eirenn," whom we find in 1638 

 criticizing Micheal 'O Cleirigh's book of genealogies of the Irish kings and saints, and 

 in 1658-9 living in Madrid. 



^ An eai'lier member of this family was Seamas (mac Cairbre) O Cionga, scribe of the 

 covenant drawn up in 1526 between Mao Eochagain and An Sionnach (Misc. Arch. Soc, 

 i, 197). 



* From various other Fiants (nos. 2335, 2930, 4795, 544C, and 6481), as well as from 

 the present one, we see that people named M^Cragh lived at Mountaincastle (near 

 Modeligo, Co. Waterford) ; hence it is very probable that this was also the place of 

 residence of the poet, although the Fiant does not explicitly say so. 



^ This is the place which is nowadays always assumed to have been the birthplace of 

 Geoffrey Keating. But the assumption seems to rest on no more solid basis than an 

 unsupported assertion of Haliday's ; and it is significant that in the seven references to 

 Burges in the Fiants persons named M'Cragh, O Daly, O Kenedy, and Lonergan are 

 mentioned as residing there, but no one of the name of Keating. 



" Among the MacCraiths of Burges in 1601-2 was ' ' Rorie m'Ea M'Cragh " [nos. 6522, 

 6583], namesake of a poet attached to the O'Byrnes, who flourished 1579-1597 (O'Gr. 

 Cat. 603, 508). 



' The anglicized form would represent ^Fean-hal, with dissimilation of the second r. 



^ The anglicized form here re^jresents a colloquial Irish form of the surname, viz., 

 '0 Rearndin (perhaps <'0 Hiorthndin < '0 Hithearndin <' Hifearndin ; ci.drthach, 

 dial, form of aithearrach). 



