Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Reference:

PR70/C/3/8

Date:

6 August 1873-29 August 1873

Title:

Page 15. “Dromdeega” – letters from Reverend John Lyons, Inchigeela, Macroom

[County Cork] to Daniel MacCarthy. Level: file

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/3

Scope and Content: Copy extract of letter dated 6 August 1873: Lyons writes that Dromdeega [near Togher in West Cork] is where Daniel’s ancestors lived before emigrating; copy extract of letter dated 29 August 1873: Lyons writes that according to Eugene “Old Root” MacCarthy, Daniel’s an cestors once owned all of Dromdeega townland, and then moved to the nearby townland of Inchi-an-Choirki [Inchincurka].

Reference:

PR70/C/3/9

Date:

25 March 1847-29 September 1973

Title: Pages 17 – 18. “What was the real connexion [connection] of the Shuldhams + [MacCarthys]” – letters from various individuals tracing the shared history of the Shuldham and MacCarthy families and their estates. Level: file

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/3

Scope and Content: Copy extracts of letters and enclosures from Morgan William O'Donovan (The O'Donovan), Montpellier [House], [Donnybrook, Cork] to Doctor John O’Donovan “Editor of Anna ls of the Four Masters”; letter dated 3 May 1847: Morgan shares a letter he received from “General Shuldham, the eldest of the family” [dated 2 May 1847] in which he tries to answer some of “your antiquarian friend’s [?John O’Donovan] questions”; - Pages 18 – 19: letter dated 25 March 1847: Morgan writes that a great grandmother of the present generation of the Shuldham family was apparently a daughter of MacCarthy Mor; Pages 19 – 21: undated letter: Morgan shares an account given by “Mrs Henry Ric hardson (late Caroline Shuldham of the Dunmanway family)” of her family history; - Pages 21 – 22: undated account by “Mrs Shuldham the wife of Mr [?MW] Shuldham of Moigh House [Ballymahon, County Longford] regarding the Shuldham pedigree; - Page 23: copy extract of undated letter from Justin MacCarthy “son of Ellinor” regarding the murder of a member of the MacCarthy family, whose sister had married into the Shuldham family; - Pages 23 – 24: copy extract of letter dated 29 July 1873 from Reverend John Lyons [?to Daniel MacCarthy] regarding members of the MacCarthy Duna and MacCarthy Orsa families; - Pages 24 – 25: copy extract of letter dated 29 August 1873 from Reverend John Lyons [?to Daniel MacCarthy] regarding the connection between the Shuldham and MacCarthy families; - Pages 26 – 30: copy letter dated 29 September 1873 from Reverend John Lyons [?to Daniel MacCarthy] regarding ”Donnchadh of Darreach – Shuldham – the Gleannachroim Tradition on this matter”; - Pages 30 – 32: copy letter dated 26 August 1873 from Maurice Hennigan to Reverend John Lyons regarding his family history. According to the letter, Hennigan’s paternal grandmother was Mary MacCarthy an-Duna; - Pages 33 – 35: copy letter dated 15 April 1871 from Richard Wagner “of Dunmanway” [?to Daniel MacCarthy] regarding “a certain Henry [MacCarthy] of Darreagh”;

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