Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

the castle, where it remains to this day. Daniel also commissioned a monument by Scannell honouring the MacCarthys and his own immediate family, which was installed in Dunmanway Catholic Church in 1872. It is clear from the correspondence in the collection that Daniel was very generous: he posted numerous copies of his books to his correspondents and regularly sent money to several poor families and individuals living in west Cork. In one instance, he supported a family so that their sons could attend the Model School in Dunmanway and later helped finance the passage of one son when he emigrated to the USA. Daniel’s benevolence was often linked to his historical research: several of the individuals he sent money to also carried out genealogical enquiries on his behalf. In another instance, he sent the Irish scholar, John O’Donovan, who assisted Daniel with numerous historical queries, a painting by the 13 th -century Italian painter, Giotto di Bondone.

Daniel MacCarthy died in Southampton on 9 April 1884.

Daniel’s son, Florence Strachan, worked for a time as a farmer in Pietermaritzburg, Natal [KwaZulu- Natal], South Africa [see his letters and drawings which detail this period in great detail: PR70/B/413], before he returned to England and married Alice Linton. They lived in Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire, England, and in South Africa for a brief period in the 1870s. Florence and Alice’s children were: Catherine Mary (1867 – 1894); Florence Popham (1868 – 1922); Mary (1869 – 1951); Charles (born 1871); Donal Percy (1873 – 1954); Eugene (1874 – 1893); Aileen (1876 – 1927); and Dermod (1878 – 1880). Florence Strachan died in 1887 and Alice died in 1911. Their son, Donal Percy, emigrated to the USA around 1904 and settled in Oregon. Donal Percy’s grandchildren donated the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection to Cork City and County Archives in 2016. Archival History The collection was donated to Cork City and County Archives in 2016 by sister and brother, Susan Aileen MacCarthy-Hallett and Donal Gover MacCarthy, of Oregon, USA. An additional 21 items were donated in 2022.

Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) was Susan and Donal ’s great-great-grandfather.

It appears that the collection was inherited by Daniel’s son Florence Strachan after Daniel’s death in 1884, and then Florence’s wife Alice [née Linton] after Florence’s death in 1887. Alice clearly recognised the significance of the collection and a brief biography of Daniel written by James Coleman M.R.S.A.I. was published in The Irish Monthly in August 1896 at Alice’s behest. It is likely that it was Alice who added genealogical information about her own immediate family to Daniel’s ‘ Book of Registries of Births, Deaths, and Marriages ’ [see PR70/F/1]. The collection also includes photographs and legal documents relating to Alice, her children, and their home in Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire, England [see PR70/F/6/2-5]. It is unclear how the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection made its way from England to Oregon, USA, but it is possible that Florence and Alice ’ s son, Donal Percy, who visited England in 1911 following the death of his mother, brought the collection to Oregon.