It was therefore arranged that to protect from confiscation 200,000 acres of Connemara lands held by O'Flahertys, Joyces, Lees, and others that were transferred into Martin's name with the trust they would be returned.
His friends and associates included his teacher Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh; Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin; John Lynch; Edward Lluyd; Samuel Moleneaux and his father William.
Drawing from numerous ancient documents, Ogygia traces Irish history back to the ages of mythology and legend, before the 1st century.
Thomas Molyneux visited O'Flaherty on 21 April 1709 and left the following eyewitness account:[3] I went to vizit old Flaherty, who lives, very old, in a miserable condition at Park, some 3 hours west of Gallway, in Hiar or West-Connaught.
I expected to have seen here some old Irish manuscripts, but his ill fortune has stripp'd him of these as well as his other goods, so that he has nothing now left but some few of his own writing, and a few old rummish books of history printed.