110 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



[no. 3089]. The " Morris Mulchonile " pardoned in 1603 is doubtless the 

 Miiiris '0 Maoilchoimire who has left a poem in praise of Eoghan 

 '0 Hallmhurain, a harper (O'E., clix). 



45. "Donell m'=Colgan MaeColgan, Shane Duw [Buih] M"=Colgan," of 

 Inishowen, Co. Donegal, 5 June, 1602 [no. 6555]. The latter is probably the 

 Semi Mac Colgdin to whom a poem addressed to Toirdhealbhach '0 Xeill, 

 ca. 1607, is ascribed (O'Gr. Cat. 388). 



46. Sean Mac Ceiblifhionnaigh is known as a poet from a quatrain in 

 song-metre dealing with O'Connor Sligo and from a poem of his in O'Conor 

 Don's MS. It is just possible that he is identical with " Shane M'^Kevaine," 

 of Inischrone, Co. Sligo, described as "husbandman," who, with two others of 

 the same surname, place, and occupation, was pardoned 19 ApL, 1603 (Cal. 

 Pat. Eolls, Ja. I., p. 22a).' In the Fiants I notice " Teige M'^Kyevony," of 

 Castlereagh, Co. Mayo, and " Molmory M'^Keaveny," of Inishcrone [no. 5798] ; 

 the name of the latter appears as "ilulmorry M'^Kevyn" in another Fiant 

 [no. 5606]. All these seem to have as surname J/«c Ciiblifhionnaigh, which 

 is now anglicized " Keaveny," and is rarely met with outside Connacht.' 



III. 



In the two preceding sections the names have been drawn principally 

 from the Fiants. The names that follow are for the most part taken from 

 other English documents of the period. Further investigation in this 

 direction would, I have no doubt, result in a considerable addition to the 

 names recorded below ; and, if time permits, I hope later on to supplement 

 the present contribution. 



47. In 1538 Ormond wrote to the Council in Ireland that Lady Eleanor 

 FitzGerald, widow of MacCarthy Eeagh, had gone from Munster to 

 O'Donnell,^ taking with her the young son of the Earl of Kildare. When 

 they had come within seven miles of O'Donnell's country, " oon Ee M'Craghe, 

 a rymor, which dwellith in the countre of Tiperarie, then being in that partie 

 at lemyng, dud mete with them, and kepte company togethers, till they 

 came to Donills house." This Aodh Mac Craitli betrayed to the anglophile 

 Ormond all he knew concerning the doings of O'iSreill, O'DonueU, and the 

 Earl of Kildare's son. — State Papers, Henry YIIl, iii. 44. 



- For " M'Kevaine " we should perhaps read " M'^Kevanie." 



- It is to be distinguished from '0 Caomhdin, a Sligo surname (O'Donovan's Hy 

 Fiachrach, p. 108, note), which in the Fiants and Pat. Eolls assumes the forms 

 OKeavane, OKievane, OKywaine, etc. 



^ This was the well-known Maghnus O DomhnaUl, poet and patron of literature. In 

 the same year (1.538) he married the Lady Eleanor. 



