A preface to Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1297, written on a flyleaf in honour of the probable patron of the manuscript, captain Brian Mág Uidhir (d. 1726). It gives his pedigree, followed by a eulogy in which he is praised for his generosity towards poets and musicians, almsgiving to the poor and for his patronage of the preservation and renewal of manuscripts, including redeeming or ransoming (fuascladh) many of them “from the foreigners and from the Gaels”.
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A long topographical poem (198 stt) attributed to Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín (ob. 1420), created in continuation of Seaán Ó Dubhagáin’s poem beg. Triallam timcheall na Fódla. Where Ó Dubhagáin covered (Gaelic) lordships and lineages of the northern half of Ireland and part of Leinster, Ó hUidhrín focused on the southern half.
