O'Doran, now Doran, a name very numerous in Leinster. According to the Irish annals the heads of this family were Brehons of Leinster, whence one of the name, emigrating to the United States, became a brehon or judge in our own time.
It is strange that the two last items are left untranslated by Dr. Lynch. The copies of Keating differ materially, and it is highly probable that Keating himself had inserted many passages into this work from the year 1629, when he finished it, till 1650, when he died, and that this may, in some measure, account for the difference of the copies. The two passages left untranslated by Dr. Lynch sound thus in English:
‘On Leac Mhic Eochadha, the Lord of Hy-Kinsellagh, was nominated, and Mac Eochadha [now Keogh, or Keohe] used to nominate him.’
‘At Dun Caillighe Beirre O'Broin [O'Byrne] was nominated, and Mac Eochadha used to nominate him.’
To this list Keating might have added several other localities, as Carnfraoigh, near Tulsk, where the poet O'Mulconry, Mac Dermot, and others inaugurated the O'Conor; the Rock of Cashel, where the King of Munster was inaugurated; Sgiath Ghabhra, now Lisnaskea, near Enniskillen, in the county of Fermanagh, where Maguire was installed; Cruachan O'Cuproin, in the county of Leitrim, where O'Rourke was inaugurated prince of Breifny, Tullyvea, where the Mac Mahon was made, Carn Amhalgaidh, where the O'Dowd was made, &c.