11-i Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



property restored. " Among the records of the Exchequer for the year 

 1592," wrote Herbert F. Hore, "there is a mass of pleadings before com- 

 missioners, in the countries of Desmond and Kerry, between the remnant of 

 the followers of the late Earl of Desmond and the English grantees of the 

 escheated properties. One of these pleadings is a petition of Connoher O'Dalie, 

 praying to be restored to the family estate. The petitioner states that his 

 grandfather, Melaghliu MacDonoghe O'Dalie \_Maoile(icMainn niacDonn- 

 chadha 'I Dhdiaiyh], was seized of Kiltoghercon [Kilsarkan], in the county 

 of Kerry, containing five ploughlands which descended to Melaghlin Oge, 

 the petitioner's father, who died, says the record, 'about a year before 

 Mr. Davells was killed.'' The petitioner further states that he forsook the 

 lands, and that he was not in rebellion, nor was he attainted. On reference, 

 however, it was found that he had been especially attainted."- Previous to 

 this, between 158-± and 1589, it would appear that he spent some time in 

 Maguire's country, if I am right in identifying him with Conchubhar Cron 

 '0 Dalaigh, who, as a poem' of his informs us, left Munster after the death 

 of the three Geraldine leaders, James fitzMaurice, Sir John of Desmond, 

 and the Earl, and sought a new patron in Ouchonnacht MagUidhir 

 (t 1589). 



53. From various presentments of juries in 1537 we learn the names of 

 brehons in Kilkenny and the adjoining counties. The jurors of Co. Kilkenny 

 complain that " Brehins law" is used "over all the countrey," "most 

 specially within the countie of Kilkenny, whiche lordes commynly have eche 

 of them one severall judge under them ; the judges name under my lorde of 

 Ostrey [Ossory], Eory Maklane."— Annuary of E.S.A.I. for 1868-1869, 

 p. 100. According to the same jurors one book of the " statutes of Kylcas "' 

 was " in the possession of Eory M^Laughire, being judge of the countrey," 

 ih., 113. The judge mentioned in these passages was named Ruaidhri Mag 

 Fhlannchadha. In a less corrupt form his name appears in the presentment 

 of the jury of Co. Tipperary, from which we learn that Thomas Butler had 

 as his judges " Eery M^Claneghye, Oyne {Eoghan or Mhi] M'Claneghe, 

 Thomas M'^Claneghe," ih., 233-4. A jury of the city of Waterford in the 

 same year (1537) finds that Lady Katherine Butler, widow of Lord Power, 



1 Davells was killed by John of Desmond about 1 August, 1579. 



- Ulster .Journal of Archseol., vii, 107 (1859). In the same article Hore suggests the 

 identity of this " Connoher O'Dalie " of 15^2 with the "Cornelius O'Daly " described 

 by Friar Dominic. The other identifications in the present note are mine alone. 



2 ZCP. ii, 346. 



■* i.e., the law of don cumhgais ; see op. cit., foot-note, p. 100, and Keating's Foras 

 Feasa, i, p. 68. Joyce (Social History, i, 183) is very far wrong in explaining these 

 "statutes of Kilcas " as " the local Brelion Law of Kilcash in Tipperary." 



