Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Scope and Content:

Reference:

PR70/C/2/36

Date:

1847-1879

Title: Pages 143 – 148. Letter from [?Charles Desmond] MacCarthy, Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin MacCarthy encloses an extract of the will of Edmund Shuldham dated 1723 from the Public Record Office, Dublin. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/2

Scope and Content:

Reference:

PR70/C/2/37

Date:

29 September 1873

Title:

Page 149. Copy extract of letter from Reverend John Lyons, Catholic curate,

Inchigeelagh [County Cork], 29 September 1873. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/2

Scope and Content: The extract discusses the illegitimacy of a relative of Elizabeth Shuldham. See PR70/B/207 for the original letter. Notes by Daniel MacCarthy are included below the extract discussing “what is now wanting” in terms of further research on the matter.

Reference:

PR70/C/2/38

Date:

29 September 1874

Title: Pages 149 – 150. Copy extract of letter from Eugene (“Old Root”) MacCarthy [?to Daniel MacCarthy], 29 September 1874. Eugene recalls a conversation he had 60 years ago with an agent of the Shuldham family about how the Shuldham MacCarthys were not “well descended”. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/2

Scope and Content:

Reference:

PR70/C/2/39

Date:

28 June 1875

Title: Pages 150 – 150. Copy letter from Eugene MacCarthy [Old/Auld Root], Inchiquin [?Gortnagark, Youghal, County Cork] to Daniel MacCarthy, 28 June 1875. This letter discusses the legend of the banshee and Eugene’s firsthand experience of hearing it. See PR70/ B/400 for the original letter. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/2

Scope and Content:

Reference:

PR70/C/2/40

Date:

1847-1879

Title:

Pages 151 – 152. Notes by Daniel MacCarthy on the superstition of hearing knocking

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