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Gillistown bog, being portions of the parishes of Drummaul, Ahoghiil, 
and the Grange, which meet here.* 
“The lake, of which about two-thirds lie in the townland of Kilknock, 
and the rest in Ballybollen and Gillistown, is situate in the north-west 
angle of the parish of Drummaul, and is commonly known as Kilknock 
Lough. In former times it covered about fifty acres, but was drained 
about the end of the last century by Captain O’ Neill of Ballyminstra. 
By this drainage the crannoge was brought to light, and the oak piles on 
which it was constructed were exposed. It is described by those who 
remember it as of a nearly circular form, and about 60 feet in diameter. 
There were also the remains of a wooden hut on it, constructed of oak 
beams. These timbers were removed, and some of them at present form 
part of the roof of a neighbouring barn, An old boat was found at the 
same time in the lough. Owing to some disputes which afterwards arose 
as to the ownership of the drained land, the outlets of the water were 
allowed to close up, and in consequence a considerable portion of the 
former bed was again submerged, and the island, from fresh deposits, 
lost its original shape. A few years back there were four or five acres 
of clear water surrounding the island, the remainder of the lough being 
-amarsh. The island can be reached by wading, but it is only distin- 
guishable from the rest of the marsh by its firmness. The tops of the 
oak piles are covered to a considerable depth with soft boggy matter, but 
can be felt with a pole seven or eight feet long. They are said to be 
about two feet in diameter. A paved causeway, which was covered to 
the depth of eight or nine feet with bog, leads down to what used to be 
the edge of the water. The bog around the lake is thickly studded with 
trunks of oak-trees, varying from one to three feet in diameter, and has 
evidently been at a remote period the site of an extensive wood. 
“TI. ‘ Tuogh-Nefuigh :—Est in eodem tuogh quidam lacus vocatus 
Loughdireare in quo est insula fortificata.’ 
“This territory, which includes the parishes of Duneane, Cranfield, 
and the Grange, is commonly called the Feevah, which name, as also ne 
Fuigh in the above compound, is evidently the Irish Pioébas, ‘ wooded 
land.’ It forms the western portion of the present barony of Upper 
Toome.t About two miles west of Randalstown, on the road to Toome, 
is Derryhollagh, a townland in the parish of Duneane. 
‘Tn this was a bog-lake called in modern times Loughravel, a corrup- 
tion of the ancient Loughdireare.t This is the place referred to in Mr. 
Wilde’s communication. 
“TIT. ‘ Tuogh de Muntercallie :—Kst in eodem le tuogh quidam lacus 
sive stagnum vocatum Loughtoman, in quo est insula fortificata.’ 
* Ordnance Survey, county of Antrim, sheet 37, N. W. corner. 
+ Called Piobard in the gloss on the Feilire at Oct. 30. Oun-da-en, “ fort of two 
birds,” now Duneane, is there said to be in it. See Reeves’s “‘ Eccles. Antiq.,” pp. 86, 
300. 
t+ Ordnance Survey, county of Antrim, sheets 43 and 49. 
