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From: Luke Stevens< >
Subject: Brian Boruma's maternal relatives
Date: 15 Nov 1998 13:58:10 -0800
I've been sitting on this information for some time now with no further
progress, so I figure it's time to post what I have, an update to the
group on certain genealogical gleanings from B.IV.2 fo. 52 (a 17th
century manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy, discussed some time ago),
including two preliminary results of particular interest to those
descended from Eve of Leinster:
1. Brian Boruma's maternal grandmother and her ancestry.
2. that the mother of Conchobar, King of Connaught, d. 973, was Cres,
maternal aunt of Brian Boruma.
With a great deal of help from Stewart Baldwin I was able to read the
manuscript and extract the information into the following table. Males
are shown in capitals and females in lowercase, and the names are as
they appear in the MS. As always, view with a fixed width font.
CIOCHARAN ANGUILE MAONACH
| | |
Cianog = CRECHAN MURCHADH
_____|_____ |
| | |
MAOLMITHICH Osnadh = URCHADH
_________________|__________________________
| | | | |
DONNCHADH CENDFAOLADH Be Binn Caoinech Cres
____________________|____ = COSCCRACH [= TADG]
| | | |
BRIAN [Boruma] CONCHOBHAR LOCHLANN CONCHOBHAR, etc.
As I said, this is only preliminary. Before it can be accepted, an
expert will need to do a complete translation, clarifying some
ambiguities I encountered on the other children of Be Binn & Cres, and
estimate the date of composition of the poem, which ought to be closer
to the 11th century than the 17th if it is authentic.
Luke Stevens
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