Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection
Sliochd Feidhlimidh, the MacCarthys of Gleannacroim'. He notes though, that he thinks that Daniel left out "Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy of Ivrea". McCarthy sends Daniel the address of Reverend John O'Riordan ("a priest in ... Cloyne" [County Cork]), who copied extracts for Daniel at some point. McCarthy suggests that a Reverend C Murphy would be glad to translate for Daniel in prose or verse. He also notes that a Reverend E Murphy, who died last year, compiled an Irish dictionary containing "a great many thousand words above O'Donovan's O'Reilly" ['O'Reilly's Irish-English Dictionary with a Supplement by John O'Donovan'].
Reference:
PR70/B/459
Date:
4 July 1875
Title: Level:
Letter from [Daniel] McCarthy, Maynooth [County Kildare] to Daniel MacCarthy.
Item
Extent: Part of:
2pp
PR70/B
Scope and Content: McCarthy sends Daniel two poems "on your family home" as promised [not included]. He says that both poems contain "all that [he] could find in the index of the Murphy [manuscript] regarding Gleann na Croim."
Reference:
PR70/B/460
Date:
[Undated]
Title: Level:
Letter from E McCarthy to Daniel MacCarthy.
Item
Extent: Part of:
4pp
PR70/B
Scope and Content: McCarthy writes regarding Bishop MacCarthy Rabagh and his pedigree. Letter also includes notes written by Daniel which he says were "dictated to me by Mrs E McCarthy". He also notes that he visited the tomb of "bishop Rabagh in Cork last September [?1870] in company with Dr [Richard] Caulfield."
Reference:
PR70/B/461
Date:
4 July 1870
Title:
Letter from Elleanor McCarthy, Clountes [Cloonties, Dunmanway, County Cork] to
Daniel MacCarthy. Level:
Item
Extent: Part of:
3pp
PR70/B
Scope and Content: McCarthy writes that she has received Daniel's letter and post office order for which she is most grateful, and that she would not know what she would do in her old age without him.
Reference:
PR70/B/462
Date:
31 July 1872
Title: Level:
Letter from Eleanor McCarthy, Dunmanway [County Cork] to Daniel MacCarthy.
Item
Extent: Part of:
4pp
PR70/B
Scope and Content: McCarthy writes regarding Angel Donoughue, maiden name Hurley, whom she visited recently and
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