Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection
Scope and Content: Popham was the father of Harriet Alexandrina Bassett Popham MacCarthy, Daniel MacCarthy’s wife.
Reference:
PR70/C/3/4
Date:
1847-1879
Title: Level:
Pages 1 – 3. “Avis au Lecteur” [“Notice to the Reader”].
Item
Extent: Part of:
PR70/C/3
Scope and Content: Notes by Daniel MacCarthy introducing this volume. Daniel writes that “the few following passages have fallen under this writer’s notice since the volume [‘A Historical Pedigree of the Sliochd Feidhlimidh the MacCarthys of Gleanachroim’] was published …”
Reference:
PR70/C/3/5
Date:
[1872-1877]
Title:
Pages 4 – 7. “How I came into possession of the Athlone Pedigree of Cormac Glas” –
letters from Charles Desmond MacCarthy, Plymouth [UK] to Daniel MacCarthy. Level: Item
Extent: Part of:
PR70/C/3
Scope and Content: To demonstrate how he came into possession of the pedigree, Daniel includes copied extracts of several letters from Charles Desmond MacCarthy.
Reference:
PR70/C/3/6
Date:
1847-1879
Title:
Pages 8 – 9. “The Massacre at Smerwick”. Copied extracts from [?’The History of
Ireland’ by John O’Driscol]. Level: Item
Extent: Part of:
PR70/C/3
Scope and Content:
Reference:
PR70/C/3/7
Date:
9 April 1875-12 November 1872
Title:
Pages 10 – 14. “Athlone Pedigree”; “Records in Dublin” – letters from Charles
Desmond MacCarthy, Plymouth [UK] to Daniel MacCarthy. Level: file
Extent: Part of:
PR70/C/3
Scope and Content: Copy extract of letter dated 9 April 1875: Charles says how gratified he was to see the Athlone Pedigree mentioned in Daniel's book, 'A Historical Pedigree of the Sliochd Feidhlimidh the MacCarthys of Gleanachroim'. He asks if Daniel could send it to him again so he can make a copy; copy extract of letter dated 12 November 1872: Charles says he found "a mass of records relating to the family of MacCarthy" on a recent trip to Dublin. He shares the sources of these records, including the Royal Irish Academy and the "Herald's [Collection]".
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