GLEANINGS ON O'DONNELL HISTORY being a rough draft or copy and. has a Domhnuill 6ig le brathraibh d'ord S. number of corrections and additions. Domenic, le ttug ordughadh doibh an The third and following paragraphs, obair do tionnsgnamh agus an mhainconstituting nearly haJf the first page, isder do dhE:namh san mheid do1budh have. been crossed out, but not to such ferrd' lea, agus go ttiobhradh fein na . a. degree as to make the text any more huile neithi do biadh d'uireasbhaidh illegible than it would otherwise be ortha, ionnus go ndernadar an mhainfrom the causes referred to above. i~ot isder do reir a ttoile. Do bhi an litir all the statements are historically de- sain .s. Domenic 'na monament a fen.si}?le, for instance, that St. Colum- ccoimhed san mainisder gusan n-aimcille. was . an Augustinian monk; that sir si ndeighennaigh ·si a ttanuig S~. D9minic wrote personally to armail go Doire gur sgriosadh an mainO'Donnell in regard to the founding of isde!', nachar fag'bhadh cloch ar cloich a Dominican priory at Derry; that innti. Agus 'nu dhiaigh so, se mainisAodh Rua O'Donnell (it really should drec.:ha don Treas Ord S. Proinseis, be Aodh. Dubh) took the .Franciscan mainisder na cCarmelfte, agus fa habit at Donegal; but the text is of in- dheiredh an aim.sir Neill Gairbh mic te:-est _as showing the beliefs and opin- Toirdeal,,_haigh an Fhiona, mainisder ions in historical matters of a learned oirderc an Uird Mionur a nDun na person of the early seventeenth cen- nGall, do bhi 'na blath ar mainisdrech-· tury. .uibh Ei!'enn o j_do-rinnedh f le foghT'he first paragraph ·.speaks of the luim, le erabhad}'l, agus leis an uile ni number of saints, (Colmcille, Adam- do biadh do ri&C}l.tanus ortha, agu~ ina nan, etc.), friars, and devout men and raibhe m6ran dQ dhapinibh naomhtha.' women produced by Cin~al Chonaill, English translation : and of those chieftains who having be- 'In the favours they conferred on queathed their E'._st(lt~s to their heirs, the church of God in the form of buildtook the religious habit. Thus, it says, ing.s, gifts and defending her from her Turlough of t'he Wine took the habit of enemies. In buildings such as the mona monk in Assaroe,_anq Aodh Ru.a took astery of St. Bernard, called the monthe habit of St. Franc.is in Donegal. astery of Assaroe, which Maolruanaidh The second pa:rng:raph treats of the Mor 6 Maoldoraigh built and to which religious houses founded by the Cineal he granted in mortmain a beautiful Chcnaill, the many gifts they confer- countryside along with other valuable red on them, and the way they defend- appurtenances relating to fish, sea, .and ed theh· inmates from their enemies. Jand: The monastery of St. Augustine ' ~sna ·comaoinibh do cui.redar ar at Derry in honour of St. Columdlle, egluis De le hoforechaibh, le tiodhluic- who was a monk and abhot. of the Orthibh, agus lena cosnamh ar escaird- der of St.Augustine. The priory of St. ibh. 'Sna hoibrechaibh mar 'ta maini.s- Domenic at Derry, which was be.gun in der S. Bernard da ngoirther mainisder the time' of St. Dominic himself, who Easa Ruaidli, do thogaibh Mao1ruan- wrote to Domhna11 Og by means of the aidh M61· 6 Maoldoraigh agus dar Dominican friars, as a result of which mharb duthaigh ro-aoihhinn maille re Domhnall ordered them to begin the socharaibh m6ra oile do thaobh eisg, work and to make the priory as large mara, agu.s tin.1• Mainisder S. Aibisdin as they wished and he would give them a nDoii:.e an anoir Ch'oluim Chille do bi everything ·they needed, so that they 'na manaeh agus 'na abuidh 4•ord S. built the priory according to their own· Aibisdin. Mainisder S. Domenic wishes. That letter of St. Dominic was a nDoire do tionnsgnadh an aimBir S. preserved as a monument in the priory Domenic, fein, do sgrfobh d'ionnsufd until these latter times when an arm-. 466.
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