Geoffrey Keating: 'History of Ireland' (transcribed by Diarmuid O'Mulchaoine)
Scope and Contents
Transcribed for the Revd Morgan O'Brien, parish priest of Newcastle, Co. Limerick. The original first went into circulation in manuscript in 1634. Marginal subheadings in English, in O'Mulchaoine's hand. Flyleaf: note on Keating's chapel at Tubrid, by J. O'Donovan, Clonmel, 1840. A few notes by O'Donovan elsewhere in the text.
Dates
- Creation: 1770
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume paper) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
See Catalogue of Irish MSS. in Cambridge Libraries, pp. 3-4.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Belonged to Dr J. H. Todd. Purchased at his sale, Dublin, Nov. 1869, lot 1412.
Bibliography
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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