G 190

Foras Feasa ar Éirinn

18th cent. Paper. 28 × 16 cms. 398 pp. (1-20 + 15-231 [with 175-8 now missing] + 232-96, pagination in first and third segments being modern [and in pencil]; first 25 pp. also numbered consecutively in red ink). Main scribe Peadar O Durnin (p. 372). The preface to the history and the genealogies which follow are in different hands (unidentified) and onpaper bearing a different watermark, the first hand writing pp. 1-20, the second pp. 21-38, 375-96.

Jottings in the manuscript include: `The Stwarts linally descends from [...] of Cink son of Laugh all descending from Eoag(...) the son of Milesius', p. 85; `220 go down', p. 289; `Ballymagruhan in the County of Dow[n]', p. 310 (inverted); `263 dow[n]', p. 333. Pages 1, 21, are badly stained showing they were at one time outer unprotected pages.

Bound in white half-vellum with marbled endpapers and `Keating / History / Ireland / Ó Doirnín' labelled on spine; several binder's blank leaves (watermark 1852) after front cover and before back cover. Formerly Bishop Reeves collection (sale catalogue no. 850). Comyn ms 9.

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1 [Foras Feasa ar Éirinn]. Title-page (badly stained) `(...) nochtar priomhdhaladh na hEir(eann o) Phartalann go gabhaltas Gall arna cnusach agus arna tiom(sughadh a) priomhleabhraibh seanchusa Eireann a(gas a il) iomad do ughdaraibh baranntamhla (coigc)riche le Seathrunn Ceitinn (...) achta (...) san mbliadhain daois an Tighearna, (mile) se cead dathatt agus a haon'. P. 2 `(...) an leaghthoir'. Beg. (...) chuireas roimhe seanchus no sinnsearacht. Ends (p. 38) ní hó mhailis acht o aineolas atá. / Bhur mbochdchara bhithidilios go bas. / Seathrun Ceitin. P. 39 Foras Feasa air Eirinn. Liber Primus. `Ag so do sheanchas Eirinn ... an mead a fuaras re nfhaisneis diobh et aos an Tighearna nois 1629.' Beg. Air dtus cuirfiom sios annso gach ainm da raibhe air Eiri aríamh. Ends (p. 255) with `Finis don chead leabhar g[...]'. Lacuna in the text here due to loss of leaves (pp. 175-8) corresponds to ed. FFÉ ITS vol. vii (1905) lines 3165-3285. P. 256 blank. Book II follows on p. 257 and ends p. 372 followed by scribal colophon: `Corp na staire: Airna criochnugha re Peadar O Durnin do chum usaide Shaain Mhic Crolugha Baile [...]dhne a mbaruntacht sraidbhaile Dhun Dealgna a gCundae Ludhmhuighe ┐c'. P. 373 Headed `Do ghabhluighibh Chloinne Mhilighe ann so sios'. Introduction: `Adeirid cuid dona sea[n]chadhaibh go bhfuilid dha chineal deag do shaorchlainn ... as a thionadh cinte fein don gcraoibh'. Followed (p. 375) by `A Catalogue of the Kings of Ireland who according to the Irish Book of Reigns and computation particularly of Lucius reign'd in all 3204 years before Henry the II's landing there, Anno Christi 1172'. Followed (p. 382) by genealogies headed `Aig sin'. Breaks off (p. 395) with the genealogy of Ó Conchubhair Chiarraighe corresponding to ed. ITS vol. xv (1914) 27.