but this is one of the very many unaccountable errors with which that work abounds. The same error has been interpolated into several modern copies of Keating's History of Ireland.

Of the O'Dalys of Muintir-Bhaire, of whom was Aenghus the Bard Ruadh, some notices occur in the Pacata Hibernia, Book III., and in the MS. entitled Carbria Notitia, which formed No. 591, of the sale catalogue of the late Lord Kingsborough's library,' which are here given, that the reader may have before him all the information respecting the sept of the O'Dalys at present accessible :

"1602. Fourth [of May], Odalie was convented before the Lord President and Councell, and in regard it was proved that hee came from the Rebells, with messages and offers to Owen O Sulevan to adhere and combine with the Enemy, which the said Owen did first reveal to Captaine Flower, Sergeant Major of the Army, and after publikely justified it to Odalie's face; the said O Daly was committed to attend his tryal at the next sessions.

"This Odalie's Ancestor had the country of Moyntirbary given unto him by the Lord President's Ancestor, many hundred yeares past, at which time Carew had to his inheritance, the moity of the whole kingdome of Corke, which was first given by King Henry the second unto Robert Fitz Stephen; the service which Odaly and his progenie were to doe, for so large a proportion of Lands unto Carew and his successors was (according to the custom of that time) to bee their Rimers, or Chroniclers of their actions."

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This account of Carew is, however, not very accurate; for the family never had possession of this territory until the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and then only for a very short time. the reign of Edward III. Thomas de Carew set up a claim, as heir to Fitz-Stephen, to all his ancient estates in Cork; but by an Inquisition taken at Cork, before Sir Anthony Lucey, Lord Justice of Ireland, on the 31st. of August, in the fifth year of the reign of Edward III., it was found that "Robert Fitz-Stephen died seized of the moiety of the estate granted by Henry II. to him and Milo de Cogan, and that the said Fitz-Stephen was a Bastard, and died without issue of his body; that the claim of Thomas de Carew, asserting that he and his ancestors were heirs to Fitz-Stephen, could not be

1 Sold by C. Sharpe, at his literary sale-rooms, Anglesea-st, Dublin, Nov. 1842.

true, because the said Fitz-Stephen was a Bastard, and died without issue of his body."

Notwithstanding this Inquisition the claim was again set up in 1568, by Sir Peter Carew, whose brother Sir George, was afterwards President of Munster; but Sir Peter died in 1575, and his heir Peter junior, was slain by the O'Byrnes at Glenmalure in 1580; and the prosecution of the suit ended in nothing. (Four Masters, A. D. 1580). From this it is very clear that the O'Dalys of Muintir- Bhaire had little or no connection with the Carews either in the reigns of Edward III. or of Elizabeth. The Author of Carbria Notitia, evidently seeing through the fallacy of this statement in the Pacata Hibernia, thus modifies it in his account of the south-west of the County of Cork.

"And soe [crossing Dunmanus Bay] you come to Myntervary, which lyes between Dunmanus Bay and Bearhaven, in which there is nothing worth observation except Coolnalong, a pretty seat belonging formerly to Mucklagh, a sept of the Cartys. This country was, according to Irish custome, given to O'Daly, who was successively Bard to O'Mahony and Carew; and to O'Glavin, who was his Termoner or receiver." Dr. Smith also describes Minterbarry, and calls it "a most barbarous country, lying between Dunmanus Bay and Bantry Bay," (History of Cork, Book II, c. 4.), but says nothing of the O'Dalys in connection with it!!

The head of this family had his residence at Druim-Naoi, or Drumnea, in the parish of Kilcrohane, where a portion of his house, commonly called "The Old College House," still remains, and forms the residence of a farmer, Mr. George Nicolas. The walls are well built, and cemented with lime and mortar, and from fragments of ruins still to be seen close to what remains, it may be inferred that it was once a house of some importance. According to tradition, two sons of a king of Spain, who were at school here under the tuition of O'Daly, died and were buried in Drumnea.

The head of this family, Aenghus, son of Aenghus Caech O'Daly Cairbreach, died in the year 1507'. The last professional poet of this house was Conchobhar Cam O'Dalaigh Cair

A branch of this family of the O'Dalys, removed to the County of Kerry, a member of whom was the celebrated Daniel or Dominick O'Daly, who wrote the History of the Geraldines. He was born in the year 1595, and died at Lisbon in the year 1662.

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breach, who wrote an elegy of forty ranns or quatrains, on the death of Donnell O'Donovan, chief of Clann-Cathail, who died in 1660, beginning:

"Cread do rug ar ṁarcrard Mujṁneaċ ? ”

"What has overtaken the Momonian Youths ?"

He also addressed a poem of thirteen ranns or quatrains, to his pupil Donough, the son of Donnell O'Donovan, and brother of said Donnell, who died in 1660, beginning:

“Saeż leam-sa luide Donnċajd. ”

"Sorrowful to me is the lying [sickness] of Donnchadh."

This Donough, who was the foster-son of O'Daly Cairbreach, is the ancestor of Mr. James O'Donovan of Myross, in the County of Cork.

Conchobhar Cam O'Daly also addressed a short poem' of nine quatrains, to Joan, daughter of Sir Owen Mac Carthy Reagh, and wife of O'Donovan (Donnell, son of Donnell, son of Teige), beginning :

"A Shioban, daingniż ar n-darl.”

"O! Joan, confirm our treaty."

The last descendant of O'Daly of Drumnea, who was recognized in the country as the head of the sept, and who claimed the O'Daly tomb at Kilcrohane, was Mr. James Daly of Bantry. He removed from Bantry to Cork, where he became a distiller, and kept a respectable establishment in John-street. He died some three or four years since, leaving a son, Mr. James O'Daly, who is still living at Cork.

That Aenghus O'Daly the Bard Ruadh, was of this family, but not the chief of it, little doubt can be entertained; and O'Reilly believes that he was the Angus O'Daly of Balliorrone, who according to an Inquisition taken at the Old Castle in Cork, on the 18th. of September, 1624, died on the 16th. of December, 1617, leaving a son Angus Oge O'Daly.

The Ballyorrone mentioned in this Inquisition is now called Ballyrune. It originally comprised the present Ballyrune, as well as Cora, Laherdoty, and Ballyieragh. Laherdoty was formerly called Mid-Ballyrune, and Ballyieragh (Bajle jarċaraċ, i. e., west town), West-Ballyrune. The site and small portions

1 Copies of these poems are preserved in paper MS. about one hundred and sixty years old, which was in the possession of Mr. Peter Lavalli, late Peruquier of the Four Courts, Dublin; and now living in Paris.

of the walls of Aenghus O'Daly's, or the Bard Ruadh's house, are still pointed out in that subdivision of Ballyrune called Cora. The walls are built of freestone and cemented with lime and hair mortar. There is a rock near the Tower at Sheep's Head, called Bro Aengus, (ie., Angus's Quern), which is locally believed to have received its name from Aenghus na n-Aer O'Daly. Several of the Dalys, or O'Dalys of MuintirBhaire, claimed descent from him, namely, Daniel Daly of Ahakista, deceased, and several others, but the widow Connell alias Mary Daly, now in the Bantry work-house, is believed to be the nearest akin to him now living. Her friends have emigrated to America. Several verses attributed to the Bard Ruadh of Ballyrune, and having reference to his coshering propensities, in his old age, when he was poor, are still locally recited, which corroborate O'Reilly's opinion, that he was the Angus O'Daly mentioned in the Inquisition above referred to; but never, at any period of his life, was he poet to O'Keeffe, as O'Reilly thinks.

The family of O'Daly was always considered as forming about the one-twelfth part of the population of Muintir-Bhaire, now included in the parish of Kilcrohane.

From a census of the population taken by the Rev. John Keleher, P. P., in October, 1834, it appears that the total population of the parish was then 4448 souls, of which the O'Dalys were 345, including 182 males, and 163 females, i. e., about one-twelfth of the entire population.

In December, 1849, a census of the parish was also taken by the Rev. Jeremiah Cummins, R. C. C., from which it appears. that the population had decreased to 2820 souls, of which the O'Dalys constituted 217, (125 males, and 92 females), i. e., onethirteenth of the entire population. Both censuses prove that the O'Dalys have kept up their old proportion to the population, although they are as liable to disappear by starvation and emigration as the other families of Muintir-Bhaire.

The O'Dalys (who appear to have forfeited the last remnant of their property in Muintir-Bhaire, at the Revolution), are now reduced to the condition of cottiers or struggling farmers, in this wild district. The principal proprietors at present are, Richard O'Donovan, Esq., J. P., Fort Lodge, Bantry; Dr. Daniel O'Donovan of Skibbereen, J. P.; Timothy O'Donovan, Esq., J. P., O'Donovan's Cove; and Timothy O'Donovan, Esq., of

Ardahill.

The ancestor of the three first-mentioned proprietors, took

this large tract of land for 999 years, from a Mr. Congreve of Mount Congreve, in the County of Waterford, an undertaker; to whose descendant they still pay some small head rent. Timothy O'Donovan, Esq., of Ardahill (who descends from Kedagh Mor, the youngest son of O'Donovan, by the daughter of Sir Owen Mac-Carthy Reagh), was himself the purchaser of Ardahill, Carravilleen, Derry-clovane and Faunmore.

INTRODUCTION TO THE POEM.

A satire is a poem in which wickedness and folly are censured, with a view to check them. Satire is general. A lampoon or pasquinade is personal, and always intended, not to reform, but to insult and vex: the former is commendable; the latter scurrilous ;-fada et insulsa scurrilitas. The term, Pasquinade, is said to have been derived from an old cobbler of the city of Rome, called Pasquin, who had his stall at the corner of the palace of Ursina, and who was famous for his sneers and jibes on the passers-by. After his death, as the pavement was dug up before his shop, there was found in the earth the statue of an ancient gladiator, well cut, but mutilated. This was set up in the place where it was found, and by common consent named Pasquin. Since that time all satires are attributed to that figure, and are either put in its mouth, or pasted upon it; and these are addressed by Pasquin to Marforio, another statue at Rome.

An aeir (satire) among the Irish, was of two kinds, the first was a satire or lampoon, merely intended to censure and annoy, but the second was of a more virulent nature, for the subject of it was not only censured and insulted, but also imprecated and cursed. The first satire composed in Ireland is said to have been by Crithinbeal the satirist, for Breas, son of Ealathan, king of the Tuatha De Dananns, but a Fomorian by descent, whose period O'Flaherty fixes to A. M. 2764; but of this satire we have no portion remaining. The next was composed by Neidhe, son of Adhna, for his paternal uncle Caier, or Caicher, King of Connacht, A. M. 3950. This satire called glam dicend, is referred to in Cormac's Glossary, under the word Gaire (shortness of life), and from the lines quoted it would appear to be more an easgaine