O’DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O’Kelly’s Country. Now first published from The Book of Lecan, a manuscript in the library of the Royal Irish Academy; with translation and notes, and a map of the ancient territory of Hy-Many.

Dublin: for the Irish Archaeological Society 1843. First edition. Quarto. pp. 21, vi, 212. Mauve blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt along spine. Mild foxing to prelims as usual, internally fine. A very good copy.
Illustrated with a large folding genealogical table, showing the descent of the principal families of Hy-Many, from their great ancestor Maine Mor, to the present day. The chief branches were the O’Nechtains, O’Mullally’s, O’Kelly’s, MacEgan’s and O’Madden’s. Their territory comprised of county Roscommon, and east Galway.
This account of the families of Hy-Many is taken from the manuscripts of the great scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh. These included the Book of Lecan compiled from various other manuscripts for Giolla Iosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, chief historian to the O’Dowds of Tireragh about the year 1418.

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