When I arrived at Dunsandle,' But after getting slender in that dun, If it were to banish demons, [brine; The son of Calphurn3 came from the cast across the As the Clann-Gibbon' are here still. In Eirin he was not noticed, I have promoted O'Flyn's welfare, He would remain unknown had I not satirized him. I got in O'Flynn's desert, A pittance for which my mind was not thankful; And its covering of horn butter." Patrick Gibbon, commonly called, the Bard of the West, on hearing this quatrain repeated, objected to its metre, and said that it should read as follows: Ma's do díbirt na n-deaṁon ó Cirinn, Hjor dibir ré jad go léir uainn, A's Clann Ghiobújn a n-Umall ܃ Mhaille. If it were to banish the demons from Eirin, As the Clann-Gibbon are in O'Malley's Umhall. But Thibbot of the brandy, a famous satirist of this race, always boasted that the Gibbons of Connacht were of the race of William Fitz-Adelm, the ancestor of the Burkes. 5 In the Church. This was the Church of Eas Dachonna, on the river Boyle, near the town of Boyle, in the County of Roscommon. It is now called Eas-Ui-Fhlainn (anglice Assylin), from the family of O'Flyn, who were hereditary Comharbas of St Dachonna Mac Eirc. See Annals of the Four Masters, Ed. J.O'D., A.D. 1209, p. 162, note, and A.D., 1222, p. 203, note, where some strange errors of Ware and Colgan respecting this Church are corrected. The word rose in the second line of this quatrain, is explained by O'Reilly, "A voluntary contribution given to such of the decent poor as are ashamed to beg. It also signifies the four first of the corporal works of mercy." 6 Horn-butter, or butter from a horn. The Bard here seems to suggest that O'Flyn's butter was so scant, as that it was preserved in a horn; or perhaps that it was gathered for him by beggars, who usually had a large cow-horn for carrying therein the small bits of butter they obtained here and there as alms. See Altużad an Bhacaiż, MS. Ling. Hib. in our collection. Cill Chorbájn an Ċill si fiar, 'S mari eaċ seangári ar mējs do Zerbini. Brájċre Majżie is maj¿ fa mormont, Brajċre an Clair is iad a deirim, Cuid laigean. Sóż is fearr d'a b-fuaras fós, 1 Kilcorban, see note 5, p. 39. supra. 2 Maighin, i.e., the Abbey of Moyne, near Killala, in the barony of Tirawley, County of Mayo. The magnificent ruins of this Abbey are still extant in excellent preservation. It was built for Franciscans of the strict observance, by Mac William Eighter De Burgo, A.D. 1460, and suppressed in the 37th of Elizabeth. See Archdall's Monast. Hib. See 3 The friars of Clare, near the town of Galway, where the magnificent ruins of a Franciscan monastery are still to be seen. Archdall's Monasticon Hibernicum, pp. 277, 278. ♦ Large families. This does not mean that the friars had numerous families or children of their own, though the original text might well bear that interpretation; but that their numerous poor relations looked to them for support, as at the present day. 5 O'Byrne's Country comprised the entire of the barony of Newcastle, with that portion of the barony of Arklow, lying north of Inbhear Daoile, in the County of Wicklow. The last chief of the senior branch of this family mentioned in the Irish Annals, was Teige Kilcorban' this church to the west! Alas! for him who would get its food in his belly: And like a pismire's steed, on a dish I got it. The friars of Maighin' are liberal of wormwood, Who are liberal of the crumbs of their wafers. The friars of Clare,it is they I mention,- The greedy group with large families," Who have the penurious grumbling of famine. THE PART WHICH RELATES TO LEINSTER. The daintiest dish I got as yet, Among the Leinstermen, the more their disgrace; And no mention of drink after it !! Oge O'Byrne of Newragh (an Jubrac), who died in 1578, leaving eight sons; but from this period forward this senior branch of the O'Byrnes was eclipsed by the superior power, fame and importance, of that of Fiach O'Byrne, the head of the Gaval-Ranall O'Byrnes of Ballinacor Castle, which is probably the house here referred to by our Bard. A reference to Spenser will shew that this powerful leader of the O'Byrnes, was attacked by more efficient satirists than Aenghus. Eudoxus. "Surely I can commend him, that being of himselfe of so meane condition, hath through his own hardiness lifted himself up to the height that he dare now front princes, and make tearmes with great potentates; the which as it is to him honourable, so it is to them disgracefull, to be bearded of such a base varlet of late growne out of the dunghill." &c. This Fiach defeated Lord Grey at Glenmalure, in 1580, but in 1597, the tough old rebel was run to earth like a hunted fox, and killed in a cave at Farraneren, by Captain Thomas Lee, commander of Rathdrum fort, who induced Fiach's wife to betray him and his sons. He was succeeded by his son Feilim. Tuaż Uj Rjagájn na ruag d-tais, Ag sud čugarb an Calbaċ! Mám sjl ar losajd bronn-áird, Dealbna cruajd, creat-lom, cnáṁaċ, Da b-faġajnn Dealbha go cruinn, Do cupfinn lem' dearna a Sjonujnn! 1 The Cantred of Iregan (Tuath Us Riagain), i.e., the Country, Tuath, or District, of the Ui Riagain; now variously called Doohy Regan, Oregan, Iregan, O'Dunne's Country, or the barony of Tina. hinch. It is situated at the foot of Sliabh Bladhma, in the north-west of the Queen's County. The O'Dunnes had the tribe-name of UiRiagain, from Riagan the great-grandfather of Donn, from whom they took their hereditary surname in the tenth century. Colonel Francis Dunne of Brittas, M.P., is the present head of this family. 2 Of feeble incursions. This is to reverse the character of this sept as given by O'Heerin, in his Topographical Poems, in which he speaks as follows: Ar Usb Riagajn na ruag d-trom,— O'Duinn taoiseaċ na tožla, Cuing na 3-craoiseać z-caż‐orda. Over the Ui-Riagain of the heavy incursions, A swift tribe who rout in the battle; Is O'Dunne, chief of the demolition, 3 Wild Garlic. See note 6, p. 35 supra. 5 Calbhach O'Conchabhair, i.e., Calvagh, or Charles O'Conor of Offaly, King's County. Brian O'Conor Faly (the son of Cathair, The cantred of Iregan' of the feeble incursions," A horde without bread, without butter, Here comes to you the Calbhach, You would think him a sickly stripper, A handful of seed in a deep trough, The Dealbhna hard, meagre-faced, bony, I would drive them with my hand into the Shannon. son of Conn, son of Calbhach), lost Offaly by his attainder in the reign of Philip and Mary; but many of the family remained in the territory, and so late as 1626, Lysagh O'Conor, Esq., of this territory, was a gentleman of wealth and high rank, whose Will, which is a very curious document, is preserved in the Prerogative Court, Dublin. See Hy-Fiachrach, p. 127, note 4. He was probably the son of the Calbhach here referred to. The last chief of this family was the late Maurice O'Conor of Mountpleasant, in the King's County, who became the heir of Lord Sunderlin, and whose sisters are still in the possession of Baronstown house, in the County of Westmeath. 6 The Dealbhna, i.e., the Delvins. There were seven septs of this name seated in different parts of Ireland, but the sept here referred to, were the Dealbhna-Eathra, seated along the Shannon, in the present barony of Garrycastle, King's County. The Dealbhna are of the race of Dal g-Cais, and derived their patronymic from their ancestor Lughaidh Dealbh-aodh, the third son of Cas. See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part III. c, 82. After the establishment of surnames, the Dealbhna-Eathra took the hereditary name of Mac Cochlain, now Coghlan. For some account of the last head of this family, see Brewer's Beauties of Ireland. Mr. John Coghlan, P. L. G., who lives near Castlebar in the County of Mayo, is the head of one of the most respectable branches of this family. His ancestor removed to the County of Mayo, with O'More, about 1740. ད་པས་ན་དང་སེབས། སེརསམ་དང་དམི |