G 417

Life of St. Finbarr

19th cent. Paper. 26 × 20.5 cms. [vi] + 67 (with scribal pagination) + 35 (unnumbered blank) pages. Margins ruled; ornamental capitals in Irish section. Scribe: Pádraic Stúndún (P. Stanton). Cork, 1894. Cf. G 385 above. `P. J. Forde March 1894' in pencil and `do bhronn Pádraig Ó hEigcheartaigh an leabhar so orm in a thigh féin i Ráthgharbh an chéad lá de Mheitheamh 1940. Séamus Ó Casaide', p. [i]. Ó Casaide ms 84.

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1 Title-page: `Beatha Naoimh Fionnbáirr tógtha ó mhacleabhar ... an bhráthar Micheál Ó Cléirigh ... 1629. Aithsgríobhtha a cCorcaigh lé Pádraic Stúndún, anns an Abrán 1894'.

2 `The following Life of Saint Finbarr was obtained by the Revd. P. Hurley P.P. of Inchigeela .... Now transcribed and translated by P. Stanton, Cork, March A.D. 1894.'

3 Beatha Bharrae ó Chorcaigh. Cap 1 beg. Mobarri din do Chonnachtaibh, do íar ccenél do chlannaibh Bríain M c. Eachaidh. Ends (p. 29) with transcription of Br Míchéal Ó Cléirigh's colophon dated Cork, 24 June 1629.

30 `The Life of Barry of Cork. Translated by P. Stanton. Chapter first.' Beg. A man (named) Barry, a Connaught man, from the western tribal districts of the clans of Brien son of Eachadh. Ends (p. 67) with notes on `the ancient name of the place now known as "Gougan Barra" .... P. Stanton Elmgrove Terrace, Cork. March. A.D. 1894'.