| Other Names |
Leabhar Mór Leacain |
| Date Written |
1398 |
| Place Written |
Lecan (Castleforbes), County Sligo |
| Author |
Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín. Commissioned by Giolla Íosa Mac Firbisigh |
| Pages |
21 folios (Originally 30 but 9 "lost" in 1724) . Written in Middle Irish. Remaining pages washed in greasy oil around same period making them transparent and poor to read. |
| Summary |
Written by the same chief editor as The Book of Ballymote, The Book of Magauran, The Book of Fermoy and the Book of Hy Many (Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín), with assistant scribes. An important surviving manuscript based around a copy of the Book of Leinster plus some additional material including the banshenchas and the Book of Rights |
| 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. |
