Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection
MacCarthy. Level:
Item
Extent: Part of:
4pp
PR70/B
Scope and Content: O'Donovan shares a pedigree of the "Senior line of MacCarthy of Glean na Chroim, coming down to, at least, 1790" which he says he has discovered. Only the first four pages of the letter are present.
Reference:
PR70/B/519
Date:
23 April 1855
Title:
Letter from John O'Donovan, 36 Upper Buckingham Street, Dublin to Daniel
MacCarthy. Level:
Item
Extent: Part of:
4pp
PR70/B
Scope and Content: O'Donovan writes that he has examined the Down Survey of Gleann a Chruim [sic] and the source of the Bandon River, but cannot find any MacCarthys in the area. Describes the course of the Bandon River through County Cork, and the castles, townlands, and landscape features encountered along the way in great detail.
Reference:
PR70/B/520
Date:
[?March] 1856
Title:
Letter from John O'Donovan to Daniel MacCarthy, and letter from John Bernard
Burke to John O'Donovan. Level: Item Extent:
1 item containing two letters (2pp and 1p)
Part of:
PR70/B
Scope and Content: This item contains two letters, the first is dated 8 March 1856 from John Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, Record Tower, Dublin Castle to Dr John O'Donovan and concerns O'Donovan's plan to visit the Records Tower and view the MacCarthy Pedigree. The second letter is undated and is from John O'Donovan to Daniel MacCarthy. O'Donovan says has no time to write except to send on Burke's letter and to mention that his health is getting better.
Reference:
PR70/B/521
Date:
15 May 1856
Title: Letter from John O'Donovan, Ballymena [County Antrim] to Daniel MacCarthy, and letter from Sir John Bernard Burke, [Ulster King of Arms], Record Tower, Dublin Castle [Dublin] to Dr John O'Donovan. Level: Item Extent: 1 item containing two letters (2pp and 1p) Part of: PR70/B Scope and Content: This item contains two letters, the first is dated 13 May 1856 from John Bernard Burke to Dr John O'Donovan. Burke's letter concerns O'Donovan's possible visit to the Record Tower, and he says that he will write to Daniel. The second letter is dated 15 May 1856 and is from John O'Donovan to Daniel MacCarthy. O'Donovan writes of his attempts to gain further subscribers in the "Black North", that
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