Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Reference:

PR70/C/2/11

Date:

1847-1879

Title:

Page 64. Copy of document in French titled “Sir Charles MacCarthy, Governor –

Consulat Général de France en Angleterre” [Consul General of France in England]. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/2

Scope and Content:

Reference:

PR70/C/2/12

Date:

1847-1879

Title:

Pages 66 – 90. Copies of numerous seventeenth- and eighteenth-century letters and

documents, mainly in French, concerning MacCarthys in France. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/2

Scope and Content: Some of the documents are concerned with providing restitution to injured soldiers who served under Sir Charles MacCarthy.

Reference:

PR70/C/2/13

Date:

25 September 1856

Title:

Pages 91 – 95. Copy letter from [John O’Donovan], 36 Upper Buckingham Street,

Dublin to Daniel MacCarthy, 25 September 1856. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/2

Scope and Content: O’Donovan writes that he has “read all of the inquisitions in the Bermingham Tower, Dublin Castle, and found a great number of MacCarthys …” He includes a list of these individuals. The original letter can be seen at PR70/C/1/p122.

Reference:

PR70/C/2/14

Date:

1847-1879

Title:

Pages 98 – 105. Copy of the last will and testament of Sir Cormocke McTeige, Knight,

16 June 1583. Level:

Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/2

Scope and Content: According to a note, the original is “preserved in the Dios. Reg. Cork.” Copies of several contextual notes by Sir Richard Caulfield about the will are included on pages 105 and 106.

Reference:

PR70/C/2/15

Date:

1847-1879

Title: Pages 106. Copy of death notice of Owen MacCarthy Esquire, “Master -na-Mona, or Lord or Master of the Preceptory of Moran”, aged 84, near Blarney. Notice copied by Sir Richard Caulfield from ‘Flynn's Hibernian Chronicle’ newspaper, number 97, volume 22, 6 December 1790. Level: Item Extent:

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