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Versified genealogy (5 couplets) of Amalgaid mac Éndai, chief from the Éoganacht of Áne. It belongs to a group of genealogical poems that are attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara.
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Biblical genealogies along with apocryphal notes about Mary and her father Joachim as well as a prayer to Mary. The text appears incomplete on a single page in a unit of TCD MS 1336, where it is said to be taken from the Lebor buide Meic Murchada. According to Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, the text derives from a lost version of the Sex aetates mundi.
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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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Versified genealogy (5 couplets) of Dúngal Raithlind, chief of the Éoganacht Raithlind. It belongs to a group of genealogical poems that are attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara.
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Versified genealogy (8 couplets) of Éogan mac Crundmaíl, chief of the Uí Choirpri branch of Uí Fhidgenti. It belongs to a group of genealogical poems that are attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara.
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Versified genealogy (5 couplets) of Fáelgus mac Nad Froích, chief of the Éoganacht of Cashel. It belongs to a group of genealogical poems that are attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara.
Irish genealogical tract, or tracts, dealing with the Fothairt. Common descent is traced to a pseudo-eponymous ancestor called Eochaid (Find) Fúath nAirt and his sons, Cian Cúldub (a quo Uí Chúlduib of Kildare) and Óengus Mend.
‘Tract’, or assembled material, giving an account of different genealogical doctrines for the three Fothaid. The most common doctrine places them among the Laigin and has them descend, on the paternal side, from Núadu Necht. Another relates them to Dál Araide, making them descendants of Irél son of Conall Cernach, ancestor of the Dál Araide. Yet another doctrine makes them descendants of Cairpre Nia Fer and Fedelm Foltchaíme.
Large Irish genealogical compilation, which covers the whole of Ireland but devotes special attention to Munster families. All extant manuscript copies date from the 18th century or later and are thought to derive from an original of unknown date. There are two complete manuscript copies and these may be said to represent a conflation of three tracts: an introductory world history based on Lebor gabála, the ‘Book of Thomond’, which is concerned with the Dál Cáis, and a tract concerned with the Eóganacht, designated by Paul Walsh as the ‘Book of Desmond’.
Versified genealogy (6 couplets) of Óengus Crobderg, chief of the ‘Éoganacht of Gabra’, i.e. Uí Chonaill Gabra branch of Uí Fhidgenti. It belongs to a group of genealogical poems that are attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara.
