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research on a day-to-day basis. He researched maps and manuscripts at many libraries and archives in
Ireland and England, with a view to establishing the correct origin of as many of Ireland's 63,000
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names as possible. His letters to Larcom are regarded as an important record of the ancient lore of
Ireland for those counties he documented during his years of travel throughout much of Ireland.
586:"The Annals of Ireland, from the year 1443 to 1468, translated from the Irish by Dudley Firbisse, or, as he is more usually called, Duald Mac Firbis, for Sir James Ware, in the year 1666"
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He was the fourth son of Edmond O'Donovan and
Eleanor Hoberlin of Rochestown. His early career may have been inspired by his uncle Parick O'Donovan. He worked for antiquarian
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Buckingham Street, Dublin. He was buried on 13 December 1861 in
312:"The circuit of Ireland, by Muircheartach mac Neill, prince of Aileach; a poem written in the year DCCCCXLII by Cormacan Eigeas, chief poet of the north of Ireland"
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The Tribes and
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O'Donovan, John, ed. (1857), "On the elegy of Erard MacCoise, chief chronicler of the Gaels over the tomb of Fergal O'Ruairc, chief of Brefny at
Clonmacnoise",
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Florence MacCarthy to the earl of Thomond on the ancient history of Ireland",
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783:The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire, by Aenghus O'Daly
456:Din techtugad and other selected Brehon law tracts
286:Edmond 1840 d. 1842, John 1842, Edmond 1844 later
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168:from a miniature by Bernard Mulrenan (1803-1868)
772:The O'Conors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir
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908:"An ancient poem attributed to St Columbkille"
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217:Jacob Grimm
103:topographer
1254:Categories
1089:Boyne 1987
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991:References
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115:Irish
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