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SCRAPS FOR IRISH SCRIBES
IN the foregoing essay the Irish version of
Bernardus de Gordon's work entitled Lilium
Medicinae was referred to, and extensive
notes in Irish from one of our MS. copies of
it were cited. The writer of these notes was a
certain Richard O Connor, whose extensive
genealogy occurs in two places as Risderd, son
of Muircheartach, son of Tadhg, son of Muir-
cheartach, son of Cathal, son of Murchadh, son
of Muircheartach na Cairrge O Conchubhair.
The scribe mentions that his instructor in the
Art of Healing was a kinsman of his own named
Donnchadh Og, son of Donnchadh Liath, son of
Giollapadraig, Ollav in Medicine to Finghin, or
Florence Mac Giollapadraig, lord of Upper
Ossory. This Donnchadh Og is otherwise known.
The earliest mention of his name that I have
SQ€,n is in Fiant of Elizabeth, No. 4832, dated
March 16, 1586, where the following notice
occurs : '* Donoghe Oge m'Donoghe lyoghe,
surgeon." The Fiant contains a list of followers of
John Og Fitzpatrick of Upper Ossory. Donn-
chadh Og is referred to frequently in a manu-
script now preserved in Edinburgh,^ which was
written under his directions in 1596 in Aghmacart
and Cullohill, in the Queen's County, of both
which places the names have already appeared
in the preceding essay. His hand also appears in
Trinity College MS. E.4.1, page 216 : mist
Donnchadh Og qui sgribcit. Moreover, the father
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