O’Murgaile of Muinne-inradain is the high steward (_Ardreachtaire_) of O’Flaherty.’[187] The king of Connaught, the head of the O’Connors, had similar officers; for we are told by O’Ferrall, in his Book of Pedigrees, under the O’Conor family, ‘that the king of Connaught kept twelve prince officers of the chief families of his country in his court, attending his person as his council, and to rule and govern as well his household as to manage the affairs of his kingdom in war and peace, and were called in Irish _Taoisigh na Cruachan_, or Toiseachs of Cruachan, the royal residence, which officers were hereditary from father to son. These chief lords had from the king certain subsidies for their services.’[188] These are given in detail in an ancient tract among the Stowe MSS. Four of them—viz., O’Flanagan, MacGerachty, O’Finnachty, and O’Maolbrennan—were termed royal _Taoiseachs_, and had each a subsidy of fifty milch cows and fifty sheep at Beltane, and fifty heifers and fifty pigs at Samheinn, as well as a domain of forty-eight Ballys; and of these officers, O’Flannagain had the high stewardship (_Ardmaoraidacht_), O’Feorinachtaigh was the Hostiarius or doorkeeper, and O’Maolbrennan was joint steward, and commanded the bodyguards. The other eight _Toiseachs_ of inferior rank had a domain of twenty-four _Ballys_ each, and of these O’Hanly had the guardianship of hostages and prisoners, O’Floinn the stewardship of the horse (_Maoras Each_), O’Flaithbertaigh and O’Maille the command of the fleet, MacDiarmad was high marschal, O’Teige was _Taoiseach Teaghlach_ or marshal of the household, and O’Kelly was _Taoiseach Seud_ or steward of the jewels.[189]