... Of his special grace, the K. has granted and given licence to Anne, who was the wife of David de la Roche kt to receive Cormacus s. of Dermicius McKarty, born of Katherine, daughter of David, and to cherish and keep him in fostership [in debito nutrimento fovere et custodire] as often as she may be asked, and may return Cormacus to the said Dermicius and Katherine or either of them at their wish, without impediment. ...
Similar APPOINTMENT [as keepers of the peace in co. Cork, as in §270] addressed to the following persons, viz.:
Thomas s. of John kt; John s. of Maurice s. of Richard; Raymond Caunton and William his son; John Roch Barry; Nicholas Poer and Walter s. of Peter le Poer; Maurice s. of Maurice Mac Gybon; Thomas Mac Shane Mac Gybon; David Barry kt and John his son ; John Roche; John Barret; Taddeus son of Dermitius Mac Carthy; Richard Burgo kt and David his son; Cormacus s. of Donatus Mac Carthy; Robert s. of David Barry.
Cormac Mag Carthaigh of the Wood was slain by the sons of Eogan Mag Carthaigh: to wit, the one son of a king who was best in generosity and prowess that was of the Momonians in his own time.
Domnall, son of Eogan Mag Carthaigh, namely, the best general protector that was in Ireland in his time, fell by Tadhg, son of Cormac, son of Diarmait Mag Carthaigh.
Donnell, the son of Owen Mac Carthy, a general supporter of the poor and the destitute, was slain by Teige, the son of Cormac, son of Dermot Mac Carthy.
Cormac mac Dermot MacCarthy was the son of Dermot Mór MacCarthy, lord of Muskerry, and Katherine Roche and was fostered by his grandmother Anna, a daughter of Maurice FitzThomas, 1st Earl of Desmond. (Curtis incorrectly states that Cormac's father died in 1367. In fact he died in 1381, killed by the O'Mahonys.)
Curtis's biographical note: Cormac, son of Dermot, was cousin of Taig and Lord of Muskerry in west Cork, a lordship founded by his father Dermot, son of Donal Og, who died in 1368.
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.
Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, Family Names of County Cork (Cork: Collins Press, 1996): 53-58.