Poems on Thomas McCartan

Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum vol 2 page 77 ( R. Flower). London 1953.

McCairtheain ( An t'ath Conchubar) elegy on  by Sean O'Murchada vol 2 page 385.

Latin verses volume 2 page 598.

William McCairthean An Duna - head of the poetic school at Whitechurch county Cork

vol 2 page 385.

Poems attributed to vol 1 page 581' vol 2 page598, vol1 page582.

Mac Cartain harper dispute with Donchach Mac Labhra vol i page 607, vol ii pp 55, 87, 123.

Royal Irish Academy  Poems by Cornelius McCartan mss 23, I46 (430)

This school first established at Blarney and afterwards transferred to Whitechurch had its first known head Diarmud Mac Sean bhuide McCarthy d 1705.  He was succeeded by Liam An Duna Mac Caithean d 1724 followed by Liam Ruadh Mac Coitir who d 1738.

After this follows a series of aprobations and eulogies by Cork poets in latin and Irish verse viz: 'Currite spectatum Muliebris verba senatus' seven elegiac couplets by Cornelius Curtin, ie 'An Tathail, Conchubar MacCairthean  P.P. of Glanmire, William Mac Cairthean an Duna'.

'Do chuala sgata ban gur suigheadh fa  mheidhir'. Eulogy in seven quatrains by William MacCairthean An Duna ct. S.H. O'Grady catalogue pp 580-583 and 'Danta Sheain Na Raitheeanach p202.

580 (i).  Commonly called William Mac Cartain an Duna of Doon a bard of the county Cork but belonging to an Ulster stock, some members of which may have moved south during the plantation period or remained behind in Tyrone's time.

Political song headed William MacCearthain 29 day of May 1703:

5 stanzas suiting the air of Grainne Mhaol, Ceangal 1 stanza. page 607 vol 1.

Poem headed controversy between Donough M Lowry and one eyed Gillamurray Mac Cartan 48 and a half quatrins.

Begins 'Cia an traghna so san ngort' i.e.

'Who is this corncrake in the field'.

The disputants were well known harpers and thier arguments is a pleasantry .

page 55 vol ii

Disputation (43quatrins) between a farmer and a harper, the latter commenting the evil ways on which his art has fallen.  The family names on the interlocuters are of Co. Armagh of Co. Down and the poem is no doubt a composition of the second half of the 17th c and of that district.  Printed from a somewhat corrupt copy (32q) in a ms by Padraigh O'Pruntagh in the possession of Doctor Douglas Hyde by H. Morris: Aghran Airt Mhic Crubhthaigh p74.

'Mac Cartain triath na neach Seang'. on Thomas MacCartan of the  Cineal Fogartaigh Co. Down 25 quatrins f.99d-e p77 vol ii Egerton mss 105 f99.