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justices or brelions, (lie 0' Daly's the poets, and the O'Cal-
lanaiis the physicians, in which family leechcraft is still
a favorite profession.
The hereditary marshals of Thomond, or North Munster,
were the Mac Namaras ; the standard-bearers the O'Deas,
and the O'Gradys were the captains of the guards until
about A.D. 1200, at which time they were succeeded in
that trust by the O'Gormans or Mac Germans, who, being-
compelled by the Danish or English invaders to abandon
their principality of Hy-Mairge in Leinster, removed to
Owney and Shingal in the county of Limerick, from whence
they were invited to Ibh Breacain (now Ibricane), and were
granted that lordship under feudal tenure by Donogh Cair-
breach O'Brian, king of Thomond, who appointed them
captains of his guards, and adopted them as his chief favorites
and counsellors, by the style and title of f]]t 511 <x6 U]
BbfiiA]t), by which appellation they are constantly styled
in our annals, and in the writings of the Mac Brodins,
historiographers of Thomond. Cumheadha (Covey) Mor
Mac Gorraain was, according to Seaan Mac Rughraidhe
Mac Craith, (see Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaidh, or Triumphs
of Turlogh), one of Donogh O'Brien's Life Guards in the
wars of Thomas de Clare in Thomond, and his son Cumh-
eadha, succeeded him after his death in 1310.
The Mac Clanchies were the hereditary chief justices or
brehons of Thomond, the Mac Craiths the historiographers
and poets. The O'Nealons and the O'ilickies were the
hereditary physicians. All these public officers of the
state had suiHcient estates allotted to them for their main-
tenance.
In the Book of Ballimote, it is stated that Nuada
Neacht, who reigned monarch of Ireland one year, was
the fourth son of Setna Sithbhaic (the peaceable) son of
Lughaidh Loithfinn, the progenitor of tlie royal Lagenian