Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection
PR70/D
Daniel MacCarthy's genealogical research, 1784-1884 (31 items)
Reference:
PR70/D
Date:
1784-1884
Title: Level:
Documents relating to Daniel MacCarthy's genealogical research.
series
Extent: Part of:
31 items
PR70 Scope and Content:
Documents collected and created by Daniel as part of his genealogical research. Includes pedigrees, which usually trace a direct line of ancestors from one individual back through the generations, and testimonials which consist of sworn statements made by individuals attesting to the authenticity of certain genealogical information.
PR70/D/1
Pedigrees, 1784-[?1884] (19 items)
Reference:
PR70/D/1 Pedigrees sub-series 19 items
Date:
1784-[?1884]
Title: Level:
Extent: Part of:
PR70/D
Scope and Content:
Reference:
PR70/D/1/1
Date:
1784-[?1884]
Title: Level:
MacCarthy An Duna family pedigrees.
file
Extent: Part of:
6 items
PR70/D/1
Scope and Content: File includes a pedigree dated 1784 titled "A genuine specimen of the Pedigree of Jeremiah MacCarthy whose proper appellation is Diarmuid an Duna …" written on parchment in Irish and English. The handwriting on the 1784 pedigree is that of west-Cork copyist, Seán Ó Coileáin [John Collins] (c.1754 – 1817) of Myross according to Dr Neil Buttimer. The pedigree bears a wax seal of John Butler, Catholic Bishop of Cork, later Baron Dunboyne. File also includes a copy of the 1784 pedigree commissioned by Daniel, which is also written on parchment. This pedigree helped to locate a missing “link” in Daniel MacCarthy’s own family pedigree and solved the mystery of who the father of Daniel’s great -great-grandfather, Cormac Glas, was. Daniel described the find as “historic” [see PR70/C/4/16], as it was a mystery that some of the leading Irish historians and genealogists of the day – John O’Donovan and Richard F Cronnelly – had been unable to solve. This pedigree, along with letters received from Eugene “Old Root” MacCarthy, proved to Daniel that Felim, by whom the sept lands were forfeited after the Battle of the Boyne, was Cormac Glas’ father.
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