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These facts enable us to fix the price of pigs in that golden age in 
Ireland. The mark was two-thirds of £1, or 13s. 4 d., and consequently 
the two pigs, being valued at half a mark, were worth 3s. 4 d. each. The. 
other half mark was equal to four uinge, or ounces, and one uinge is 
called the twelfth , i. e., the twelfth of a pound [of gold?]. An uinge 
must, therefore, have been Is. 8d. 
Part iv. The pig transaction does not seem to have permanently 
broken friendship between O’Kearney and Donnell Derg; for the former 
appears to have lent the latter a sum of money, secured by a further mort¬ 
gage on the lands. 
Part v. Donnell Derg, however, engaged in gambling, but lost eight 
marks, and his person appears to have been seized by Hugh Poe 
Mac Kamara, and Owen of the Money, the successful gamblers. He 
was ransomed by Teige Mac Donnell Mac Kamara, who gave a good 
steed for him to the gamblers ; -so that the price of a good steed in those 
days was about £5 6s. 8 d. 
Mac Kamara, however, owed O’Kearney one uinge of gold and six 
marks for three milch cows ; and the rescued gambler, Donnell Derg, 
mortgaged his lands still further to the prudent O’Kearney, to discharge 
this portion of his debt to Mac Kamara. The lands concerned in this 
document are situated near Sixmilebridge, county of Clare, and the 
same remark applies to the next two deeds. 
Ko. 2—Is another deed, of the nature of a mortgage on the lands of 
Kill Piontanain, dated August 11, 1612. 
Ko. 3—Is a statement of the debts or demands of Conor Mac Teige 
upon the clan Mac Craith, out of the lands of the Lower Corbally. 
(Ko date.) 
Ko. 4.—The will of Mortogh Mac Mahon, written after his death by 
the testamentary priests who were present at his death-bed ; it is little 
more than an acknowledgment of his debts due to Donn Mac Gorman. 
(Kot dated.) He appears to have lived in the neighbourhood of Kilrush, 
county of Clare. 
Ko. 5.—A deed of mortgage (1549), on the lands of Donnell Oge 
O’Kearney (see Ko. 1), to Mac Con Mac Lochlainn, son of Sida [M‘Ka¬ 
mara]. [The date shows that the Donnell Oge O’Kearney here men ¬ 
tioned must have been the son or grandson of the personage mentioned 
in Ko. 1.] 
Ko. 6.—An endorsement on Ko. 5, dated also 1549, containing a 
power of redemption, and liberty to O’Kearney to carry off manure from 
the land, “if there be manure upon it.” 
Ho. 7. A deed of arbitration respecting the lands of Garry Orrtha, 
between Conor Mac Teige and Mac Craith Mac Teige, dated A.D., 
1587. 
Ko. 8.—An endorsement on the former, much obliterated. 
Ko. 9.—A deed of indenture, dated 1551, conveying half the land 
and inheritance of Murchu, son of Conor, son of Murchu, son of William, 
of Bally Sidhnoidh for ever, to Philip and Conor, the two sons of Conor, 
son of Teige, and their heirs after them ; and a sort of mortgage of the 
