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rather suddenly from the hollow. It is now merely a knoll, resembling 
a little gravel hill; but it is fresh in the recollection of the neighbours 
that it was a stockaded island, having an external framing of oak piles, 
and the interior composed of gravel and clay. It is stated that several 
articles of curiosity have been found here, but time has dispersed them 
all. The name of the townland bears no resemblance to that in the In- 
quisition, but the large townland which joins Loughmagarry on the west, 
and of which it appears to have been a sub-denomination, is called the 
Fenagh, that is, Piodnach, and formerly gave name to the whole. The 
Loughinchefeaghny of the Inquisition is a compound of loch-inpe-p100- 
naié, ‘ lake of the island of Feenagh.’ 
‘‘ These four crannoges are interesting in a civil point of view, as be- 
ing, each, the accompaniment or head-quarters of a little territorial chief- 
taincy. They were the little primitive capitals of the four Irish tuoghs 
or districts, which, being combined in pairs about the beginning of the 
seventeenth century, went to form two English half baronies, exactly 
preserving their main boundaries ; and though the names and sites have 
for ages been forgotten, and find no place in the Ordnance Map or any 
other survey or description, yet, with the Inquisition of 1605 as the 
pioneer, they have been satisfactorily traced out.* 
‘Together with these, it may be well to put on record the names of 
some other crannoges which existed in the same and adjacent counties. 
“V. Loch Crannagh.—In the townland of Cross, over Fair Head, in 
the parish of Culfeightrin, is the lake of the above name, covering 
twenty-four acres and a half. It is called from a small, but beautifully 
defined island, artificially formed in the centre of it. 
“VII. Loughinsholin.—A small lake, a little north-west of the village 
of Desertmartin, gives this name to the great barony in the south of the 
county of Londonderry. Correctly written it is Loch inre Ua Ploinn, 
‘Lake of Inis-O’Lynn.’ It was so called from Jnis Ua Fhloinn, or 
‘O’Lynn’s Island,’ a small stockaded island situate near its eastern 
margin. It probably obtained this name while the O’Lynns, or the Ui 
Tuirtre, were on the west of the Bann, ere they were forced by the 
O’ Kanes into the south-west of the county of Antrim. The barony was 
formed in 1591 out of the two territories called Glenconkane and Killetra, 
and this little island must have been considered an important spot when 
the lakelet which contains it gave name to so great a tract.} 
“In Friar O’Mellan’s Irish Journal of the Rebellion of 1642 we find 
the following notices of this island :— 
“1642, 27 April. Tanaic pluag Cul patam ap Copmac O Neill 
mac Ferolim 019 50 Roilgeac oan cpeacad ’poap mapbad a muin- 
tip leo .1. clann Uilliam. Appapin 0016 50 loé nip 1 Luinn agup go 
Muime mon 50 ccapla in 0a pluas a bpogup oa poile. Oo cpuin- 
* In identifying Nos. 1 and 3 there was considerable difficulty, and the merit of their 
discovery is due to Mr. William Millar, of Ahoghill. No. 2 has been known to the writer 
for several years, and No. 4 was identified by him about twelve years ago. 
+ See the note in Primate Colton’s Visitation, pp. 76, 125. 
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