Collectanea De Rebus Hibernicis III

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 Eng MS 498
  • Alternative Id.
      GB 133 Irish MS 99
  • Dates of Creation
      n.d. [mid 19th Century]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      184 x 112 mm. 1 volume (86 folios); Binding: full-bound in elaborately embossed leather over boards.

Scope and Content

Transcriptions by Kelly from the Clogher Manuscripts in the Royal Dublin Society. The volume contains:

  • (folio 2) A letter from Sir John Davis (continued from English MS 497,see above);
  • (folio 30) A Book of Postings and Sale of Forfeited and other Estatesand Interests in Ireland (extracts), 1703;
  • (folio 46) Rev. John Keogh's Statistical Account of the County of Roscommon...for Sir William Petty, 1683;
  • (folio 66) Teigue O'Durgan's Genealogy of the O'Donellans of BallyDonellan, 1750;
  • (folio 78) The Genealogy of the O'Maolalla, Counts of Lally Tollendal;
  • (folio 85) Inscription on the Old Bridge of Athlone, 1843/4.

Additional Information

The contents of this volume are transcribed from the Clogher Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Dublin Society. The bulk of the Library of the Royal Dublin Society formed the basis for the National Library of Ireland on its establishment in 1877.