116 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



seventeenth century. Martin, in his " Description of the Western Islands 

 of Scotland" (1703, p. 115), speaking of the "Orators" o^ Is- Dane (aos 

 dana), says that " upon the occasion of Marriages and Births they made 

 Epithalamiums and Penegyricks \sic], which the Poet or Bard pronouuc'd " ; 

 and he also tells us (i6., p. 116) that "the Poet or Bard had [formerly] a 

 Title to the Bridegrooms upper Garb, that is, the Plade and Bonnet, but 

 now he is satisfied with what the Bridegroom pleases to give him on such 

 occasions." 



55. " Owen Odewhee, a preacher, and a maker in Irish," is mentioned 

 among " the learned men and authors of Ireland " in Stanyhurst's Description 

 of Ireland.^ This is Eoghan '0 Dtcbhtliaujh, O.S.F., author of the poem 

 Ldig dad chomdrtas diiinoi (against Miler Magrath and others) ; for whom see 

 further O'Sullevan Beare's Hist. Cath. lb. Compend., lib. iv, cap. xii, and 

 Mooney, quoted in the 1850 edn. of O'Sullevan's work, pp. 107-8, note. 

 This Franciscan poet and preacher is in all probability the " Eugenius 

 Duhy," vicar of Tubbrid, who, with Geoffrey Keating, is mentioned as one of 

 the founders of the chapel of Tubbrid (south of Cahir, in Co. Tipperary) in 

 the inscribed slab which still stands above the door.- 



56. " William M'Croddan," i.e. Uilliam 3Iac Boddin (?), is mentioned as 

 "a brehon or judge under the Earl " of Tyrone in 1593. — Cal. S.P., 1592-6, 

 pp. 112, 114. 



57. Among those who set sail from Ardea (on the Kenmare Eiver) for 

 Spain, 7 July, 1602, with Connor O'DriscoU and Father James Archer, s.J., 

 was "Dermond mac Shannagauie,' a Eimer " (Pacata Hibernia, ed. 1810, 

 429), i.e., Diarmaid Mac (rectius '0 ?) Seanchdin. 



58. In the course of the inquiry set on foot by Mountjoy in Fermanagh, 

 ca. 1608, the jniy desired, in order to determine with certainty the profits 

 accruing to Maguire from his mensal lands, to consult " an old parchment roll, 

 which they called an indenture, remaining in the hands of one O'Brislan, a 

 chronicler and principal brehon of that [i.e. Maguire's] country ; whereupon 

 O'Brislan was sent for, who lived not far from the camp, who was so aged 



the title in the sis. is more explicit : Ollamhiiacht .i. sjire iitiachair .i. eadach niiachair go 

 coitchionn \ do bhi Tadhg do chongbhdil go hainiidlightheach u Pheadair '0 Maolchonaire. 

 It is possible that the wedding referred to was that of Tadhg 'O Rodaighe's niece-in- 

 law, which took place in 1701, and for which Peadar 'O Maolchonaire wrote an 

 epithalamium (H. 6. 15, p. 94). 



' In Holinshed's Chronicles, ed. 1807-8, vi, p. 63. First printed in 1577. 



-The inscription is dated 1644, and it has hitherto, I think, been misunderstood. 

 The natural interpretation of it would seem to be that the founders, "Duhy "and 

 Keating, were both at that time (1644) dead, and were buried within the chapel. 



^Less incorrectly in Cal. Carew mss., iv, 202, "Dermot M'Shauaughane, a 

 Rymer." 



