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Verse

19th cent. Paper. 9 × 10.5 cms. [i-vi] + 154 pp. Scribe: Padruig Ua Guarán, 1818 (p. 78); Donall Mac Counsidine (signature p. 93) wrote p. 94; p. 79 may, however, be by another scribe.

The following names and other jottings occur in the manuscript: p. [i] `From Rev. Mr. Sheehy', `sagart [repeated], as cleiric', `(? James) Adam / James MacNa(mara) ?) / Twenty one days after date we jointly and severally promise to pay'; p. [iii] drawing of man in military uniform (head and shoulders missing) followed by `I am sohi ...', `Twenty one day after dat'; p. 1 `Labhair Phattruig Ui Ghearane'; p. 59 `Buachaill'; p. 124 `On demand we jointly and severally prom'.

Bound in leather with clasp; `Ossiani[c] Poems I' labelled on apine, a loose slip of paper contains the following typed notes: `Ossanic Poems. A.D. 1818. / Dialogue of Oisin and St. Patrick. Scribe Pádruig Ua Jonathan Furlong'. Comyn ms. 1.

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[i]-[vi] Writing exercises: (a) `[... m]anners with fortune [...],' (b) `[... a]dvanceth men of mean deg[ree ...]', (c) `[... lo]ve to your poorer neig[hbour]', (d) `[From num]bers aid and art never [vill fame depart]' (mnemonic lines associated with the `Puzzle of the Thirty Counters'), (e) `[...] improves that studies wi[...]' (f) [...] modest words admit of [...].'

1 Blank except for jotting, for which see above.

2 `Aragóntacht Padruig agus Oisin.' La da raibh Padruig in sa Douinn (2nd quat. beg. [p. 3] Go mbeannuithir dhuit a sheanoir liath headed `Aragóntacht Phadruig Naomhtha ┐ Óisin mhc Finn anso síos A:D: 1818'). 226 qq. numbered. The following first lines may be noted: Oisín is fada do shúann (p. 7), Sé fir déag is Fíonn na bhFíann (p. 43), A Phadruig a ccúalla tú an tseilig (p. 65), Lá da raibh Fionn na bhflaith (p. 66). `Crioch aragontacht Phadruig Naomhtha agus Oisin - sgriomhtha anso mbliadhain aon mhileadh ocht ccead agus ocht deag le Padruig Ua Guarán' (p. 78).

79 Faicaim air aon os comhar chach. 3 qq. Ossianic. P. 80 blank.

81 `Murchadh Riabhach Macnamara cct.' Och mo lot mo ghaichair go neugad / chuis mo gholadh mo dhochar is baoghal liom. 124 lines. `Crioch an meid sin, ansa mbliadhain 1818.'

94 `Is Maol Goula gan brathair is sis marag / do bhios gan drathair a naumh tagara ann / ghloar bhuirib is maul buile an aondurnn.'

95 `Giolladh an Anrían le Donocha Mhacnamara.' Do ríarfuin sgeol dom chomharsa air aonread. 310 lines.

125 `Aodh Buídhe Mha Crúitín 1818.' A Bhanaba is féasach dhom do sgealltadh. 35 stt.

137 `A criochabh deanach le Murchadh Riabhach Macnamara cct.' Smaoinig air do chraoichaibh sul do reachair chum baisi [sic]. 218 lines. P. 154 blank.