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Cormac Mac Carthaig, brother of the same Diarmait above, reigned thirty-one years. He was a year in an encampment against the Uí Chairpri in the castle [...], and ten and ninety of his accustomed followers in that year in his own house. He died and was buried in the monastery of the Friars in Corcach.
Cormac Mac Carthy, Lord of Desmond, and Donnell, the son of Teige O'Mahony, died.
Joan the stooped, daughter of Mac Carthaigh, Wife of Mac Conmara, died after gaining, the victory of hospitality.
Diarmait Mag Carthaigh, namely, heir of the king of Desmond, was killed by the Ui-Mathgamna of Fonniartharach in treachery.
Dermot Mac Carthy, heir to the lordship of Desmond, was slain by O'Mahony.
Domnall Óg Mac Carthaig, i.e. his (Cormac's) son, reigned thirty-one years. There was none of his contemporaries, neither foreigner nor Gaedel, more comely, more humane, or more powerful than he, nor was there in his time one of greater [...] generosity, prowess, kindliness, or truthfulness. He died in the castle of Loch Léin, and was buried in the same monastery [in Corcach] after a victory of penance and devotion. And no other calamity was so notable at that time.
Domnall Mag Carthaigh junior, namely, king of Desmond, died and his son, namely, Tadhg Mag Carthaigh, was made king in his stead over Desmond.
Donnell Oge Mac Carthy, Lord of Desmond, died; and his son, Teige, assumed the lordship after him.
Tadhg son of Domhnall Óg son of Cormac Mac Carthaigh, king of Desmond, died at Baile Í Chaiibre, and was brought to Cork to be buried.
Cormac Oge Mac Carthy died in captivity in which he was kept by his kinsman, Mac Carthy More.
Mac Carthy More was banished by the O'Sullivans.
Teige (i.e. Caech na Moicheirge), the son of Dermot Mac Carthy, heir to the lordship of Desmond, was treacherously slain by Felim, the son of Dermot Mac Carthy.
Joan, daughter of the Earl of Desmond, namely, wife of Mag Carthaigh Mor, that is, Tadhg Mag Carthaigh, died this year.
Tadc Mac Carthaig, i.e. son of the above Domnall, reigned thirty-eight years, and of the foreigners and the Gaedil of his time he was the best, the greatest, the [...], and the most reputed(?) for wine-drinking. Nevertheless, he was a son worthy of his father. He died in the castle of Baile Uí Chairpri and was buried in the same monastery, A.D. MCCCCXXVIII. His wife was Sebán, daughter of Garret the earl. She died in Caislén Mac nAeducáin and was buried at Tráig Lí.
Eógan, son of Domnall Óg Mac Carthaig, was slain on the third day after Christmas in Cluain Eócháin by some of the Clann Tomais, i.e. by Dáibíd Dub, grandson of Seoán, with his followers and kinsmen; and there was also slain there the son of Donnchad, grandson of Fíngen son of Diarmait son of Domnall Óg Mac Carthaig, i.e. Tathag, and many others were burned along with them on that day, A.D. MCCCCL (1450).
Tadhg MacCarthy, later given the epithet Tadhg na Mainistreach ('of the Monastery') was lord of the main branch of MacCarthys, who styled themselves princes of Desmond. Although Tadhg did not found Muckross Friary, the purported foundation which gave him his epithet, he was lauded by the Annals of Inisfallen as "the most reputed for wine-drinking." He was married to Joan (or Sebán in the Annals of Inisfallen) FitzGerald, daughter of Gerald FitzGerald.
W.F.T. Butler, Gleanings from Irish History (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1925).
K.W. Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2003): 186-191.
Kenneth Nicholls, "The Development of Lordship in County Cork, 1300-1600" in Patrick O'Flanagan and Cornelius G. Buttimer, eds., Cork: History and Society (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1993): 157-211.
Margaret K. Smith