Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Scope and Content: Charles apologises for not replying sooner to Daniel's letter received more than a year ago and not long after their meeting in Cork. He discusses his own family history and offers to send Daniel a pedigree of a MacCarthy which might interest him.

Reference:

PR70/B/310

Date:

29 January 1872

Title:

Letter from Charles Desmond MacCarthy, Bank of England, Plymouth [UK] to Daniel

MacCarthy. Level:

Item

Extent: Part of:

4pp

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Letter outlines how the Pedigree of Carolus, the “Centurio" came into the possession of Charles Desmond MacCarthy, and how he subsequently gave it to Daniel.

Reference:

PR70/B/311

Date:

5 May 1872

Title:

Letter from Charles Desmond MacCarthy, Bank of England, Plymouth [UK] to Daniel

MacCarthy. Level:

Item

Extent: Part of:

4pp

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Charles forwards Daniel a pedigree which Daniel subsequently copied into his manuscript notebook, see PR70/C/2/p48.

Reference:

PR70/B/312

Date:

October 1874

Title: Level:

Letter from Charles Desmond MacCarthy to Daniel MacCarthy.

Item

Extent: Part of:

2pp

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Charles encloses notes about the "Mourne Red" [not included], saying that they are "probably quite enough and more than you will care to include" in Daniel's book, 'A Historical Pedigree of the Sliochd Feidhlimidh, the MacCarthys of Gleannacroim'. He asks Daniel to put him down for several copies of the book and gives instructions on the type of paper and binding he would like. He adds that he is "quite disgruntled with Owen O'Loughey ... I thought he was a man of valour and a good gallowsglas ..."

Reference:

PR70/B/313

Date:

1 November 1874

Title:

Letter from Charles Desmond MacCarthy, Horrabridge, near Plymouth, [UK] to

Daniel MacCarthy. Level:

Item

Extent: Part of:

3pp

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Charles encloses a corrected proof of Daniel's book 'A Historical Pedigree of the Sliochd Feidhlimidh,