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| Book of Fermoy |
| Other Names |
The Book of Roche |
| Date Written |
1391 |
| Place Written |
Glanworth, near Fermoy in County Cork |
| Author |
Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín on Commission to the Clann de la Roch |
| Pages |
200 folio (vellum) pages. |
| Summary |
Written by the same chief editor as The Great Book of Lecan, The Book of Ballymote, The Book of Magauran, and the Book of Hy Many (Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín), with assistant scribes. The manuscript contains The Book of Invasions, "Fosterage of the Houses of the Two Milk Vessels" (both of the Mythological Cycle), "The Wooing of Emer," (the Ulster Cycle) "The Adventures of Art son of Conn" (the Kings Cycle), The Voyage of Bran, and many more stories, with numerous variations with those found in other manuscripts. |
| Context |
Produced for commercial consideration by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín and his scribes using a standard formula based around the Book of Leinster and additional texts they created. Wholly unreliable as evidence clearly shows genealogies were created purely for the benefit of the client family. His name later changed to Adam Ó Cianáin to hide his real identity and the fact this Book was merely one of many created the same way |
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