O'Rahilly — Irish Poets, Historians, 6fc., in English Documents. 109 



Ushnagh, Co. Westmeath. Here we appear to liave Uie names of three known 

 poets, viz. Diarmaid 'O Cohkthaiijli (O'E., cxlv), Muirchcartach '0 Cohlithaigh 

 (O'E., exlvi), and Maoileachlainn ' Cohhthairjh (H. 1. 14, fo. 108a). 



42. The '0 Euauadha family of poets are associated mainly with Mag 

 Aonghusa's country, in tlie present Co. Down, where the following O'Eonys 

 were pardoned 3 May, 1602: Loghlin oge, Hugh, Gilleduff, and Owine; 

 Shane m'^jSTeyse, Neise [_Aon(ihus\ m^Cormock oge, Coconaght, William gromo 

 [gruamdha], Hugh m'^Langhlen, Eorie. Two of these ai'e possibly to be 

 identified with known poets, viz., Aodh mac Conconnacht 'I EvAinadha 

 (O'Con. Don's lis., fo. 62b) and ScAn ' Euanadha, author of a poem 

 addressed to the sons of Fiacha 'OBroin (H. 1. 14, fo. 118). More probably 

 the latter is the" Shane OEowne "pardoned in a Co.Wicklow Fiant in 1582 

 [no. 4019]' 



43. "Whony on Canty, of Curribordy, Ellen ny Tane ny Mahowney, his 

 wife, Farfassie on Cantie, of same, Katharine ny Daly, his wife, . . . Teige 

 on Canty, of Clansheane, Margaret ny Fynen, his wife," 14 May, 1601 

 fno. 6516]. Uaithne and Fearfeasa 'G'n Chdinte, of Curravordy, to the north 

 of Bandou, Co. Cork ; and Tadhg 'O'n Chdinte, of "Clansheane," which I 

 cannot identify, but which is evidently in the same district. Fearfeasa is 

 the well-known poet of that name, who among other pieces has left us an 

 elegy on Aonghus Fionn, to whom his wife may have been related. Tadhg is 

 probably to be identified with the author of the poem Uadha fein do /has 

 'losa in O'Conor Don's MS.' 



44. " Morris Mulchonile {sic), of Ardchile, Shane Mulchonile, and Shane 

 Parke Mulchonile,, of same, yeomen," 3 Mar., 1603 [no. 6755]. Here we 

 have Sean ' Maolchonaire, of Ardkyle [ArdchoiU), near Sixmilebridge, 

 Co. Clare, author of some poems, and famous in his day as head of the 

 leading historical school in Ireland.^ In an earlier Fiant we find a pardon 

 granted to a son of his, "Donill m'^Shane Mulconry, of Ardkill," 7 Sep., 1577 



^A third, and earlier, man of the same name, viz. "Shane O'Rono, of Tohe, 

 CO. Westmeath," was pardoned in 1561 [no. 365]. 



"The following are the only other occurrences of the surname 'O'n Chainte ("an 

 obscure name," O'Grady calls it) in the Fiants of Elizabeth ; all the places mentioned are 

 in Co. Cork : — " Derinot O Cantie, of Castellmahoune, Sely ny Dermot O Cartie(sic), of 

 same" [no. 6539]; " Wm. reogh O Encantie, of Tymolage " [no. 6701]; "Dermot 

 m=Conoghor ny Carty {sic), of Curverdy " [no. 6539], i.e. of Curravordy ; in Fiant 6764 

 this last individual appears as ' ' Dermod m'Connoghor O Clianty, of Caenelardery " ■ 

 (sic !) ; " Donogh O Cantie, of Cashelbeg " [no. 6764] ; and perhaps " Donell m'Donegh 

 U Cartie," of Co. Cork [no. 6499]. 



^ As we find the same (presumably) ' ' Seaan 'O Maeilchonaire on ArdchoiU " getting 

 some lands in mortgage as early as 1548 (Hardiman's Ancient Irish Deeds, p. 62), he 

 must have been a very old man at this_ date. 



