Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in King's Inns
MS 1
Foras Feasa ar Éirinn.
18th and 19th cent. Paper. 29.5×19 cms. Pp. 2 (title-page with verso blank)+14 (only p. 1 numbered)+247 (pp. 15-261)+1 (verso of leaf glued to back of p. 261)+3 (blank)+20 (pp. 263-82)+8 (numbered 59-66) +4. Three binder's leaves at beginning (foll. by two torn out) and two at end. Lower outer corners of pp. 15-24 repaired; text restored on pp. 16-17, 19-20, but not on others. P. 152 blank except for number and 'Forus Feasa' (twice) at top. Most of manuscript written about 1740 (p. 151 m). Title-page and pp. 1-[14], 25-6, written by Patruicc Ua Loingseadh in Dublin in 1817 (see title-page), who supplied defects in this manuscript from MS 2 in this collection (see below). Bound in leather with gilt tooling on spine. 'KEATING'S IRELAND' in gold lettering on patch of red leather glued to spine.
Words ‘Carrick on Suir’ on outside front cover and ‘Stair ag Forus Feasa air Caraicc[. . .?] na Suiradh’ on outside back cover, both in ink. Pencil-note on verso of third leaf at beginning: ‘This is a very good copy of Doctor Keatings History of Ireland. It is in a very legible hand with few contractions and even these are easily decyphered. It is in good preservation and taken all together I have seen few so good copies. E. Ó Reilly’. Some pencil-notes in margins of a few pages near beginning of text; also scribbling in pencil near end and no. ‘44’ in pencil on last leaf but one. Calculation ‘1755/38/117’ on p. 21; some scribbling on pp. 263, 268-9.
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Title-page . 'Forus Feasa ar Eirin mar a noctar Suim Seancais Eiriond go coitcean o Partholand go gabhaltus Gall. Ar a thionscaint ar a cruiniughadh ar a ceartleiriugadh ar a cuir sios agus ar a lamh sgrioba as priom-leabhruib Seancais na tire agus iomad dudraib coigcrice. lais an Saccart fodhlamtha ⁊ an t'-Ollamteagaisg san Diadhachta. Seafrún Ceitchin. Ar a chriochnughad leis tiompciol na bliadhna d'aos an Tigearnadh 1629 do reir barramladh an Sgribneora, ceartsealbora an leabairso .i. Mise Patruicc Ua Loingseadh 1817 a mBaile Atadhliath Dhuiblinadh.'
1 . FORUS FEASA AR EIRIN. REIMHRADH AN UGHDAIR. Beg. Gidh be duine san bhioth chuirios roimhe seancas no sinsiordhacht criche san bhioth de leanmhain.... Ends (p. 21 m) Óir má tá éiní inbhéimhe ann, ní hó mhailís acht ó aineolas ata. Búr mbochtchara bithdhilis go bás Séurún Kéiting.
21 i. History. Headed ‘Ag so do Sheanchas Éirionn . . . ó thús riamh gus an aimsearso, in mhéid fuarus ré abhfasneis díobh Anno Domini 1638’. Beg Ar ttús cuirfiom síos annso, gach ainim dá raibh ar Éirinn riamh. Ends (p. 151 m) with ‘Finis libri primi Anno Domini 1740’. Book II follows on p. 153 and ends on p. 244.
245 . Genealogies. ‘Do Ghabhlúgadh Mac Míladh annso.’ Introduction foll. by: ‘Do Chraobhsgaoladh shleachta hÉibhir ... do shliocht Eoghain mhóir mc. Oillealla Oloim’ (246); ‘Do chraobhsgaoiladh shleachta Chormaic Cais mc. Oillealla Óluim’ (247 m); ‘Do Chraobhsaoiladh sleachta Thaidg mc. Cein mc. Oiliolla Óloim’ (249 m); ‘Do Chraobhsgaoiladh Shleachta ír m. Míleadh’ (251); ‘Do Chraobhsaoiladh Shleachta Fhearghusa mc. Roigh’ (252); ‘Do Chraobhsaoiladh Shleachta hÉiriomhóin (253); ‘Do Chraobhsgaoiladh Sleachta Chonaill Golban’ (254 m); ‘Do Craobhsaoiladh Sleachta Bhriain mc. Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin’ (255); ‘Do Chraobhsaoiladh Sleachta Fhachaidh mc. Eochaidh Muimheadhón’ (256); ‘Do Chraobhsaoiladh Sleachta Cholla Uais’ (257); ‘Geiniolach Dháil Riada Alban’ (258 i); ‘Do Chraobhsgaoileadh Sleachta Laoghaire’ (259 m); ‘Geiniolach Mhic Giolla Páttraig .i. Tigearna Osraidhe’ (260 m); ‘Do Chraobhsgaoileadh Sleachta Lúighdhioch mc. Íthe’ (261.6). Foll. (p. 261 m) by ‘Deo Gratias’.
261 - [262] . (two leaves glued together to cover writing on verso of 261). Wa( ) A[blank] of whom I Wright. 18 lines of verse written as prose.
263 . Synchronisms in three columns. Ends (p. 282 i) at A.D. 1264.
[283-7] (59-63). Blank.
[288] (64). Table of contents; page-numbers not given. Beg. Beatha an Ughdair / An Reamhradh cum an leaghthorad. Ends (with page) Tuarasgbal Cata Cluana Tarbh.
[289] (65). ‘Clar na Riogh' in two columns. Beg. Slainge Mac Deaghla: dFearaib mbolg. Breaks off (p. [293] [69] i) with Toirdealbach mor mac Rughraoi / [ ] : Eiriomhon.