O'Rahilly — Irish Poets, Historians, 6fc., in English Documents. 97 



M'=Egan, of Pallace," 11 June, 1586 [no. 4888]. (c) "John Boelagh m'^Shane 

 m^Eagaine, of Gortnerlogh, Bolagh dutfe m^Carribre M^Eagaine/ of Killclure, 

 Cosne M'Boelie of Gortneclogh, Owen Boelagh, of same, . . . Cairibre- and 

 Cosne m-^Donnell M^Boelagh, of Gortneclogh," 1600 [no. 6469]. All three 

 Fiants deal with the followers of Mac Carrthaigh Mor. Here we have 

 Baothghahich Diihh Mac Aoclhagdin, of Pallis, near Killarney, in 1585-6, and 

 of "Killclure"^ in 1600, when the place of Domhnall, Earl of Clancar 

 (tlo96), had been taken by his son-in-law Finghin. Baothghalach Dubh 

 was thus of the branch of the Mac Aodhagains who were brehons to 

 Mac Carrthaigh Mor."' He was also apparently something of a poet. Thus 

 he appears to have the best claim to the authorship of I)ia do clirutliaigli 

 grianbhrugh Nimhe.' Another poem, in praise of MacCarthy, is ascribed 

 alternatively to Baothghalach Dubh or to Muiris mac Dhaibhi Dhuibh 

 (O'Gr. Cat. 542); the latter also, as we have seen (§26), lived at Pallis, 

 which was one of the residences of Mac Carrthaigh Mor. 



28. The MacAodhagain family of brehons had by the sixteenth century 

 carried their profession into many parts of Ireland ; indeed they are found 

 almost as widely spread as the '0 Dalaigh family of poets. I append the 

 names of a few members of other branches of the family apart from that of 

 West Munster (§ 27) :— 



(a) " Carbary M'^Egan of Bally M°Egan," i.e. Ballymacegan, in the 

 extreme north of Co. Tipperary, is mentioned in a State paper of the year 

 1591 (Cal. S.P. 1588-92, p. 426). This is evidently the Cairbre (son of 

 An C'osnamhach,'^ etc.) Mac Aodhagdin, whose name is the first appended 

 to a document of arbitration between O'Kennedys drawn up in 1584 

 (GJ. 89, p. 88).' His son, Flann Mac Aodhagain, of Ballymacegan, is best 

 known from the testimonia which he gave the Four Masters on the completion 

 of their works. 



1 Cf. "Beholagh rn'Oarbery M'Egan," of Co. Cork (?), 1590 [no. 5412]. 



- Also pardoned in 1601, " Carbrie m'Donell M'Egaiiie " [no. 6555]. 



^ Either Coolclogher {Ciiil-chluthair 1), close to Killarney, and adjoining the townland 

 of Castlelough, or Kilclogherane, in the parish of Kilbonane. "Gortnerlogh" and 

 " Gortneclogh " doubtless represent the present Gortnaglogh in the adjoining parish of 

 Kilnanare . 



^ His father Cairhre (Fiaiit 6469) may possibly be the Cairbre (son of Conchobhar), 

 with whom MacFirbis (p. 325, col. 3) begins his pedigree of MacAodhagain " ollamh 

 cloinne Carthaigh," But more probably he is the " Carbery m'Shane M'Hegan, of 

 Pallice," pardoned in 1585 [no. 4677]. 



' Printed in Trans. Gael. Soc. Inverness, xxvi, 100. 



« Perhaps the scribe of part of H. 4. 22 (cf. Abbott-Gwynn Cat. 212-213). 



' "Carbery M'Eagan, of.Lessine," 1601 [no. 6519], may be the same man. One of the 

 places called Lisheen in Co. Tippei'ary, viz., that in the par. of Dorrha, is near Bally- 

 macegan. 



