478 
So also the ‘four towns”’ of Craigs, in the barony of Kilconway, are on 
the Ordnance Survey mapped as one townland of 2,800 acres, without any 
mark of subdivision ; but the four names, Groogagh, Grannagh, Carhin- 
ney, and Aughnakeely, are locally remembered, although the boundaries 
cannot be exactly shown. The Ordnance Survey might advantageously 
have perpetuated the last name, as it belongs to a portion in which is an 
ancient cemetery, which Colgan notices as Achadh-na-cille.* 
The divisions in Donegal were ballybetaghs, descending to quar- 
ters, ballyboes, and sessiaghs: of which the baliyboe,t with occasional 
sessiaghs, was the denomination which eventually merged in the general 
townland. ‘ 
In Londonderry it was found by inquisition, about the year 1639, that 
‘there were four baronies, one of which, Terkerren, contained ‘“ 14 bally- 
betaughes, making in the whole 182 ballyboes, or townlands”’ ;+ thats, 
13 ballyboes to the ballybetagh. Ardmagilligan, in the barony of 
Keenaght, was returned as containing ‘‘ 40 towns or ballyboes.”§ On 
the Ordnance Map the same parish, now called Magilligan, has 48, which 
showsavery triflimg numerical change in the last two centuries andahalf. 
In Armagh the prevailing denomination was the ‘‘ ballyboe or town,”’ 
which contained three sessiaghs. In 1623 the parish of Tawnaghtalee, 
now Ballymore or Tanderagee, was found to consist of 55 balliboes or 
townlands,|| while on the Ordnance Survey it now contains but 48, 
showing, even after allowance made for some subtractions, that there has 
been since that date no further subdivision. Ballymoyer, the patri- 
monial parish of the Keeper of the Book of Armagh, has been for two 
centuries and a half reckoned as eight towns; and though some of the 
component names varied from time to time, yet the numerical character 
was always maintained, and to this day, both locally and on the Ordnance 
Survey, the “eight towns of Ballymyre”’ occupy their old position. 
Lorga Iwallane, returned as a sessiagh in 1609, is now the townland of 
Lurgyvallen, in the parish of Armagh, consisting of 184 statute acres. 
In several instances we meet with ‘‘ proporcions” of ten ballyboes, in 
this county, which are estimated at 1000 acres, that is, 100 acres, with 
their appurtenances, to the ballyboe. 
In Tyrone, as in Armagh, the ballyboe, or townland, was the pre- 
vailing denomination, and contained three ‘‘ sheshawghes” or sessiaghs, 
which are jointly represented in the modern townland survey. It had, 
besides, a compound denomination called tullagh, consisting of a bally- 
boe and a sessiagh, that is, a townland and a third. 
Travelling southwards into Leinster, we find a considerable change 
in the denominational terms. The popular division of Longford was the 
* Trias Thaumaturga, p. 1824, n. 195. 
+ There are twelve townlands called Ballyboe, in Donegal, and one called Eleven 
Ballyboes, containing only 408 acres. There is no other townland called Ballyboe in 
Ireland, except one in the parish of Templeetny, in South Tipperary. 
{ Ulster Inquisitions Londonderry, No. 9 Car. I. 
§ Ibid. No. 5, Jac. I. 
|| Ulster Inquisitions, Armagh, No. 8, Jac. I. 
