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    The Great Book of Lecan or simply Book of Lecan (Irish: Leabhar (Mór) Leacáin) (RIA, Ms. 23 P 2) is a late-medieval Irish manuscript written between 1397...
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  • Yellow Book of Lecan (YBL; Irish: Leabhar Buidhe Leacáin), or TCD MS 1318 (olim H 2.16), is a late medieval Irish manuscript. It contains much of the Ulster...
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    and her decrepit old age. The Great Book of Lecan (c. 1400 AD) contains a collection of stories concerning her. The Hag of Beara is said to have been born...
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    known of which is The Great Book of Lecan (1418). Third Redaction (R³): preserved in both The Book of Ballymote (1391) and The Great Book of Lecan. O'Clery's...
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  • Lebor na Cert (redirect from Book of Rights)
    various others in Ireland. The Great Book of Lecan, and the Book of Ballymote contain copies. The Lebor na gCeart or the Book of Rights is a 12th-century text...
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    of manuscripts that originated in the West of Ireland in the late 14th century or the early 15th century: The Yellow Book of Lecan, The Great Book of...
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  • Lebor na hUidre, the Book of Leinster, the Rennes Manuscript, the Book of Ballymote, the Great Book of Lecan and the Yellow Book of Lecan in The Metrical Dindshenchas...
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    history such as the Great Book of Lecan and the Leabhar na nGenealach. From the 8th to the 15th centuries, the O'Dowd were Kings of Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe...
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  • of the Great Book of Irish Genealogies Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fir Bhisigh, historian, scribe compiler of the Yellow Book of Lecan, Great Book of Lecan Joe...
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    known as the Great Book of Lecan. He is described as being from Scythia, and the Goths, or the Gaedil. According to the same version of the story, he...
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    County Sligo (redirect from County of Sligo)
    the territory of Corran, the Great Book of Lecan, and the Yellow Book of Lecan, both written in Tir Fhiacrach. The patron of the Annals of the Four Masters...
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  • Dolan (surname) (category Surnames of Irish origin)
    listing of the Irish chiefs. He refers to the Dolans as- O'Dobhailén co nDeaghbhloidh (meaning 'O'Dolan of good fame'). The Great Book of Lecan compiled...
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  • singular in having his inauguration ceremony preserved in an old book, the Great Book of Lecan. Written between 1397 and 1418 at Enniscrone in Tireagh, it...
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  • Complete. 23 P 12 or Book of Ballymote (BB), f. 65b-66b (RIA). Book of Huí Maine, f. 190a1-191a2. Complete. H 2.17 or Great Book of Lecan, f. 183b-184b (TCD)...
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    Lebor na hUidre (The Book of the Dun Cow) Leabhar Buidhe Lecain (The Yellow Book of Lecan) Leabhar (Mór) Leacain (The Great Book of Lecan) Briggs, Katharine...
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  • tnú" in the Book of Leinster and the Annals all say Tipraite defeated him in battle in Túath Amrois. Keating and the Great Book of Lecan says Tipraite...
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  • Murchada Cuimre na nGenealach Leabhar na nGenealach Great Book of Lecan An Leabhar Muimhneach Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies Leabhar Ua Maine Rawlinson B 502...
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    Uí Ímair (redirect from House of Ivar)
    might have contained pedigrees of surviving septs of the Uí Ímair themselves was a section in the Great Book of Lecan. This section, specifically focused...
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  • Republic of Ireland Specifically, works such as the Lebor Gabála Érenn, Book of Ballymote and Great Book of Lecan, say that, during the time of Moses, Goídel...
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    502, the Book of Ballymote, the Book of Lecan, the Leabhar Mór na nGenealach compiled by Dubhaltach MacFhirbisigh, and the Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies...
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  • Brehon (category Year of death unknown)
    nGenealach, also the abridgment version Cuimre na nGenealach and Great Book of Lecan. The genealogist would also be referred to in old Irish as a Seanchaidhe...
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  • Dowd (category Surnames of Irish origin)
    preserved in an ancient manuscript of the aforementioned Mac Firbis scholars. This manuscript, known as the Great Book of Lecan, was written near Enniscrone...
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  • Banshenchas (category Women of medieval Ireland)
    his contemporaries. Copies of An Banshenchas are found in the Book of Leinster, Leabhar Ua Maine, and the Great Book of Lecan. Like the dinsenchas ("place...
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  • daughter of King Cormac mac Airt. The text is preserved uniquely in the Great Book of Lecan (RIA), ff. 181a, 2. Although the spelling has been modernised, the...
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  • many of the most important early Irish manuscripts, including Lebor na hUidre, the Book of Leinster, the Book of Ballymote, the Great Book of Lecan, and...
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  • He was the chief compiler of the Yellow Book of Lecan and the Great Book of Lecan, both of which are valuable literary and historical texts. The Celebrated...
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    nothing is known of his early life. The History of the MacDonalds and the Book of Clanranald relate that his immediate ancestors were prominent in Argyll...
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  • Charles Vallancey (category Pages with Gutenberg book template using bullet)
    defence of Dublin. Queen's-bridge, Dublin, was built from his designs. He died 8 August 1812, aged 81. He at one stage possessed the Great Book of Lecan which...
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  • Mac Fhirbhisigh (category Surnames of Irish origin)
    nGenealach, a massive compilation of Irish genealogies. Fear Bisigh mac Domhnaill Óig Great Book of Lecan Yellow Book of Lecan Ó Duibhgeannáin Irish genealogy...
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  • genealogical text in the 14th-century Great Book of Lecan, which indicates that the pedigree has been following the Book of Glendalough up that point and will...
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