Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/4

Scope and Content: Professor McCarthy writes that he has examined “the [manuscript], without being able to find the elegy.” He also discusses a mistake made by Dr John O’Donovan regarding the year of death of Tadg MacCarthy.

Reference:

PR70/C/4/14

Date:

1846-1874

Title: Page 16. “Pedigree of the MacCarthys of Drishane, Doneen, and others, in [manuscript] in the possession of Mr Charles Desmond [MacCarthy].” Copy pedigree. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/4

Scope and Content:

Reference:

PR70/C/4/15

Date:

1846-1874

Title: Level:

Pages 17 – 18. "Earl of Clancarty's pedigree".

Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/4

Scope and Content: This pedigree appears to be part of a series of documents which are stuck in-between pages 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 16-17, and 18- 19 of the volume. They may be part of the “papers” mentioned by Edwin Windele in his letter dated 2 October 1866 [see page 1].

Reference:

PR70/C/4/16

Date:

[1848]

Title:

Page 20. “The father of Cormac Glas” – notes by Daniel MacCarthy on finding the

“missing” single link in his own pedigree. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/4

Scope and Content: Daniel cites a pedigree which John Windele copied for him in 1848 [see PR70/D/1/1] and letters from Eugene MacCarthy which “clear up what was so long an obscurity and matter of research to the late Doctor [John] O’Donovan and Cronnelli [Richard Francis Cronnelly] … [and] connec ts the later descents with Felim in the main branch which is historic!”

Reference:

PR70/C/4/17

Date:

27 March 1848

Title:

In-between pages 20 – 21. Letter from John Windele, Blair’s Castle, Cork to Daniel

MacCarthy, 27 March 1848. Level: Item

Extent: Part of:

PR70/C/4

Scope and Content: John Windele encloses a copy of the pedigree of Jeremiah McCarthy Duna [see PR70/D/1/1]. He also

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