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Verse

Late 19th cent. Paper (ruled). 33 × 20 cms. 76 unnumbered pages of which the first 37 only are written on. Scribe unidentified.

Bound in white vellum with marbled endpapers. `The Langton Manuscript and other Collections' in ink on spine; `Ex libris M. Uí Dhóraigh' verso of endpaper, `Seamus Ó Casaide Baile Átha Cliath [1906]' on p. 1. Loosely inserted is a nine-page fragment, 31 × 19 cms, by an unidentified scribe; `Dory Coll' on last page (see below). Ó Casaide ms 11.

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1 Title-page: `Local Irish poems of the Walsh Mountains in the County of Kilkenny'.

2 `Toireadh air Sheaghan mhic Bhaiteir Bhreathnaich.' Druidigídhe anuas a chlann ó na nanmann / tá sgéal dúbhach aguinn faoi bhrón le aitris. 230 lines arranged in stanzas (of varying no. of lines) the Death of John Mac Walter Walsh'. Assemble around, o you dear children of my soul. `End.'

34 Go mbeannuighthear díbh a gasra ta san gchill [sic] so stig / is mairg atá in bhúr neasbadh 's gan a radharch aige. 7 stt. containing two six-line stt. `Crioch.' English version facing: Hail to the youths of my race, the lonely dwellers of this house of death. 7 stt. `End.'

The loosely-inserted fragment contains two extracts from O'Conor's Rerum hibernicarum scriptores, vols iii-iv (1826): (a) `Annales iv Hibernorum opera fundatis saeculo viii'.