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GLEANINGS FROM IRISH MANUSCRIPTS
of the book reproach me for the inferiority of my
letters and the carelessness of my transcription,
for I have been in great haste, and have been
supplied with bad writing material ; moreover,
I have been moving from place to place, Anno
Domini 1577, f.i., the seventh of August ; and
blessed be God through the ages.
Teagh na Ronna, here mentioned as the resi-
dence of Brian, son of Cathaoir Caomhanach, is,
apparently to be identified with Tinnaranny in the
south of County Carlow. Brian mac Cahir mac
Art Kavanagh is frequently mentioned in the
Fiants of Elizabeth's reign as of Knockyn, or
Knocken, in that county — as also his son and
successor Morgan, or Murchadh Caomhanach.
Brother of Morgan was " Geralt m'Brien
Cavanaghe, of Tyneranzfio, Carlow^'' August 18,
1587. Another close relation was " Mortagh liagh
m* Cahir Cavanagh of Tennaranna^ County Car-
low ^'^ Fiant 4036. There is, however, another
Tinnaranny in the County of Kilkenny, on the
west side of the Barrow, not far from New Ross,
but I do not know if the Kavanagh family had
property or a residence there. Among followers
of Brian mac Cahir in 1577 were " Edmund
O Kelly, horseboy, of Tenranny^ County Carlow^'^
and ** Edmund Owroghe m' Dermott of Tenranny^
kern.** O Cleirigh, in his Book of Genealogies, fol.
8 6, gives Murchadh, mac Briain, mic Cathaoir, mic
Airt, etc., as eleventh in descent from Diarmaid
Mac Murchadha who brouo^ht the Normans to
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