104 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



of Desmond (1583). He himself was destined to fall a victim to the same 

 tyranny, as we see from the following words of Philip O'SuUevan Beare ; 

 "Donatus Macrahus cognomento Niueus' Ibernus vir apiid populares suos 

 frugalitate et liberalitate notissimus, Momouiarum praefecto Anglo, qxiem 

 hospicio acceperat, non modo lautum splendidumque conuiuium instruxit, sed 

 etiam domesticos suos choraeas atque ludos exhibere inssit. Faucis in 

 diebus praefectus hospitem Corcacham accersitum vltimo supplicio afiicere 

 imperauit, causatus viro probo et frugali non fuisse substantiani alendae 

 tantae familiae parem, atque adeo tot domesticos, non nisi furtis, rapinis, vel 

 aliis artibus vetitis (quod nullomodo probatum est)ab eo ali necesse fuisse." " 

 The date of his death may be placed about 1597, for on 25 Nov. in that 

 year Galbally and other lands in Cos. Limerick and Tipperary, " possessions 

 of Donnagh M'^Craghe, of G-albaliy, attainted," were granted to one George 

 Sherlocke [no. 6175]. In " Pacata Hibernia" (ed. 1810, pp. 257, 259) 

 reference is made to the deep impression which the " execution of Donogh 

 MacCraghe " had made on the people of Munster. 



35. (a) The family of Mac-an-Bhaird in the sixteenth century were 

 settled in several districts. Perhaps the most important branch of them was 

 that in MacMahon's country of Farney, Co. Monaghan, of which the following 

 members were pardoned in 1601: — "Hugh m"Dermod M'E.,' Flaun 

 m°Morishe M'E., Coconnaght m^Coconnaght M"E., Patrick oge m^Morish M'=E., 

 Patrick m'Cowle M'^E., Nise [Aonghus] m'Hugh M^E., Nise m'^Adam M'=E., 

 Patrick m'^Toell M^E., Patrick moyle M'=E., Patrick baune and Maurice 

 m'=Toell M"E., Coconnaght m'^Patrick M'^E., Noo [Nuadha], Flan, and Lissagh 

 m'^Dermod M^E., Shane and Cormac m'=Patrick nioile M°E., Patrick 

 m'Thomas IVP^E., Patrick oge m'Patrick M'^E., Owin M<^E., Dermot 

 m<^Conoghor M<^E., Patrick cam ^PE., Conor m'=FlinM'=E., William oge M^E., 

 Dermot ni"^Melaghlin M^E., Mullaghliu M'^E., Hugh m'Melaghlin M'E., 

 William m'Manes M-^E.," and also "Patrick m'Dermot M-^E." [no. 6563]. 

 Some of these appear also in an earlier Fiant relating to the same 

 district, in which I find: "Patrick moyle m°E., Awe \_Adhainh'] M"E., 

 Patrick m'eviccarie \_inac an hhiocdirc] M'^E., Connor m^Flyn M"E., 

 Patrick m'^Thomas M°E., Dermot m'Gilpatrick M'^E., Patrick bane 

 m-^Toole M-'E., Moris m'Toole M«E.," 6 Mar., 1592 [no. 5724]. In 

 another Co. Monaghan Fiant "Owne, Connor, and Deirmod M"E." were 



1 Wronglj' translated " Donough MacCarthy, surnamed the White," in M. J. 

 Byrne's " Ireland under Elizabeth," p. 39. 



-Historiae Catholioae Iberniae Compendium, 1G21, fo. 106b. 



^In these Fiants the name i.s variously .spelled M=Evard, M^Evarde, M«Ewaird, etc., 

 all of which I here abbreviate to M'^E. 



