[Munster poetry of the 18th century
By: Written in 1781 in co. Limerick or Clare by an anonymous scribe. Brit. Mus. Egerton mss. 160. ff. 148b-151.]
Language: eng
Notes: "Thomas Ó Miodhchain cct." begins "Is iomdha ard don Mhumhain ionna siubhlaid aicme bhreodhte as": Song (10 stanzas) on lying up with a hurt leg at Kilmihill, co. Clare, after living the life of a strolling poet in Munster. ff. 149-151.
Table of contents: title: The last 2 stanzas of "Maitias Ó Héagarta agas Dairmuid Ó Sgainuil eadtorrtha cct." a poem beginning "Ni a oCaisiol Mumhan dob aite liom a bheith páirtioch le". contention in 8 stanzas between two poets of the Killarney district in the time of Eoghan ruadh Ó Súilleabhain, f. 148b.