G 305

MacCurtin's `Annals of Innisfallen' (translation)

19th cent. Paper. 19 × 15 cms. 73 ff. (older pagination 52-145 (with error on f. 45 v] begins here on f. 26 v). Scribe: Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin (unsigned) with marginal entries and dates throughout the manuscript given by J. Windele (signature f. 45 r). The older pagination also appears to be Windele's. `Innisvallen Ano. Domi. 1834[/] four[/] Carignavar Pat Longan' is written at the end of the text (f. 73 r).

Bound in three-quarter blue leather with Sir William Betham's book plate and `Phillipps MS 13291' inside front cover. Listed under `Sir Wm. Betham's MSS 1854' in Phillipps's Catalogus (the `original letter of Michael O'Longan relative to this translation' listed with this manuscript by Phillipps is not included here). Purchased by the National Library for £5 from Sotheby 24 June 1935.

This is an autograph copy of Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin's English translation of MacCurtin's `Annals of Innisfallen'. For details concerning the Annals, its compiler and manuscript copies see G 76 above.