106 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



In neither Fiant is any iDlace-name njentioned, but from the personal names 

 it is easy to infer that both belong to the North-East, to Co. Antrim. Here 

 we have the poets 'OGnimli (head of his name), Fearfiatlia '0 Gnimh, and 

 Ainnrias Mac Marads} Hence we see that the distinction observed in 

 MSS. between '0 Gnimh and Fearflatha '0 Gnimh was a real one. Ii is said 

 that when Sean '0 Neill visited Queen Elizabeth in 1562, he was attended 

 by, among others, " Gnive, his poet,"- whom Hardiman and later writers 

 have wrongly assumed to have been Fearflatha '0 Gnimh. O'Eeilly speaks 

 of the latter (whom he places too early, ca. 1556) as " poet to the O'Neills of 

 Clannaboy."^ 



38. The principal seat of the '0 Duibhgeannain family was the extreme 

 north of Roscommon, together with the adjoining parts of Sligo and Leitrim. 

 The following '0 Duibhgeannains from this district are mentioned in the 

 Fiants* : Mulmurre, Dovagh [Duhhthach], and Ferfas, of Shancough [Seanchua], 

 Co. Sligo, 1585 [no. 4706]. Mulmory, Donogh, and Ferfasse,' of Kilronan (Cill 

 Rondin), Co. Eosc, 1585 [no. 4727]. Cahill roe and Oghey, of " Clonmore," 

 Co. Leitrim, 1585 [no. 4797]. Kirrowe m^Nysse'^ [Ciothruadh mac Aonghusa], 

 of "Killerre" (prob. Killerry, near Lough Gill), Kirrowe and Dowle'^ 

 [Buihghall, or Bomlmall ?], of Carrick {i.e. Carrick-on-Shannon ?), Dalvay 

 [Dalbhach, or Dolbh], of same, Cogogrie, Farfasse, Toell, Eichard, Fartasse (sic), 

 Moylemorre, Kirrew, Dalvay, Donnogh, Cahell ro, and Coaghe [Gobhach ?], 



' From these Fiants we see that O'Gi'ady (Cat. 343n.) was mistaken in thinking that 

 Ainnrias's real surname was MacCraith. Only one of his compositions appears to have 

 survived, viz., a poem of 12 stt., Anocht is uaigneach 'Eire, ascribed to him in O'Con. 

 Don's MS. and 23 F 16, whence it has been edited by Miss Knott in 'Eriu, viii, 191 ff. 

 A version of the same poem in Brussels MS. 6131-33 is ascribed to Eoghan Ruadh 

 Mac an Bhaird, and has 28 stt. (Meyer in 'Eriu, iv, 188). There is an anonymous 

 version in Gottingen Ms. 773, as I learn from a transcript by Stern ; this version has 

 80 stt., but appears to be a jumble of two poems, viz. Anocht is naigneach 'Eire and 

 Cdit ar ghabhadar Gaoidhil. 



- Hardiman, Irish Minstrelsy, ii, 157. I have not succeeded in discovering the 

 earlier source from which presumably Hardiman derived this information. 



5 In the year 1700 Edward Lhuyd purchased part of the MS., H. 3. 18, from Eoin 

 'O Gnimh, of Larne, Co. Antrim (Abbutt-Gwynn Cat., pp. 140, 152). 



■* For brevity's sake I omit the surname, and when they are identifiable I give only 

 the current form of the place-names, while retaining the Fiants' spelling of the 

 Christian names. 



" These three men are almost certainly identical with the preceding three. " Mul- 

 mory " is the Maolmuire who in 1578 succeeded his father, Dolbh, son of Dubhthach, 

 as O Duibhgeannain Cille Ronain and ollamh of Tirerril (FM. p. 1704). For "Donogh" 

 read " Dovogh " {= Duhhthach). "We have here Dubhthach 'Og mac 'I Dhuibhgeanniin, 

 author of the poem Leaiw.m croinic clann Ddlaigh in praise of Aodh Ruadh 'O Domhnaill 

 and his ancestors (St. A. v. 1, fo. 78 b ; see also O'R., cxlvii). 



" In the case of these names the accompanying surname is spelled " ODownegan" 

 (instead of " O Dowgenan "). 



