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Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh

19th cent. Paper. 26.5 × 18 cms. [i-ii] + 242 pp. Scribe: Peattair Ó Longáin, `láimh le Corca', 1840. The pagination up to p. 232 is scribal, the rest is modern. The initial capital is illuminated. Bound in three-quarter leather with marbled end-papers; `Caithreim Tordealbuig' in gilt and `108[37]' labelled on spine, `Phillipps MS 10837', `Mss Ph 10837' on verso of first end- paper, `Wars of Thomond' on p. [i].

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1 Caithréim Thoirdhealbhuig no Coguídhe Tuathmhúmhan. Headed `Ag so don tsean ┐ don primhleabhar seanchais dá ngairmid eólaig Caithréim Thoirdealbhuig, ionna nochtar gach gníomh tásgamhail dá ttárla a tTuamhúmhain ... iarna chéadsgríobha le Seán mac Rughruídhe Mic Craith ... ┐ iarna nuaidhsgríobha as an seanleabhar reamhráite le hAindrias Mac Cruitinn chum úsaide ... Taidhg mic Seán mac Mághthamhna mic Domhnaill Bhailligh mic Maghthamhna Doill mic Mic Con mic Coinmheadha mic Mic Con mic Lochlonn mic Coinmheadha Mhóir óna Ranna 1721.' Text beg. Ar tteacht dúrlámhas Éirionn a seilbh Gall san mbliaghain daois Crist 1172. Ends (p. 239) go bhfuair bás ┐ fur hadhlacadh a nInnis é, an bliaghain daois Crist 1355.

This text of Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh derives, with most of the extant copies, several of which were written by the Ó Longáin family, from RIA 23 G 26 (written 1760 by Micheál mac Peadair Uí Longáin) and so ultimately from Aindrias Mac Cruitín's copy, now TCD H. 1. 18.

239i The following scribal colophon: `Iarna sgríobhadh le Peattair Ó Longáin an 12 lA don Fhoghmhar, mile, ocht ccéad ┐ dá fhichit, láímh le Corca Mór Múmhan.'

240-42 Blank.