Archives and Manuscript Catalogue

Scope and Contents It may be said in summary that the manuscript appears to be a product of a school conducted by An Giolla Riabhach Ó Cléirigh and Dubhthach Ó Duibhgeannáin, and that it circulated for a hundred years and more in Cowall. The Reverend William Campbell’s formalised note at page ii, giving the place Glenmasan and the date 1268, has provided the name by which it is generally known. In view of the difficulty Campbell experienced in the 1760s or 1770s in writing the date at page 29, one is entitled...