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recorded examples of it exhibit a meaning which favours their objection. 
In a contemporary marginal note in the Book of Armagh,* bav/e is used 
to denote ‘‘ place” ; and next, in the Book of Lecan, it is glossed in the 
same, meaning, by the word énad.{ It occurs, also, in the Tripartite 
Life of St. Patrick,t but probably in a sense approaching to the more 
modern use. Meanwhile we have, unfortunately, no certain instance, at 
an early date, of a proper name, into the composition of which this term 
enters. 
Manes compounded with daze prevail extensively in Scotland, as well 
as Ireland. In the latter the word is generally written and sounded 
dally, but in some districts, principally the Dano-English territory of 
Fingal, in the county of Dublin, it is contracted to al, as Balgriftin, 
Balheary, Baldungan, Balcunnin, Balrothery, Balbriggan, &c.. In Scot- 
land the same variety exists.|| In the west, that is, Argyll, part of In- 
verness, and Rosshire, we find examples, at every step, of dallys ; but 
proceeding towards the east and north-east side, bal.is the corresponding 
form ; and as this region is the Pictland of olden times, it may be that 
the Pictish language, which, with good reason, is referred to the British 
family of the Celtic, predisposed the tongue to despatch the word with 
that brevity which the genius of the British language encouraged. If 
such was the case, this peculiarity must have arisen many ages ago; for 
the vernacular language of Pictland has been, as far back as the memory 
of man can reach, the ordinary Gaelic of Scotland. 
Tn Ireland, baile was a term of frequent occurrence in composition at 
the close of the twelfth century. We have already noticed the denomi- 
nation Ardeamma, which, in a charter of Kells, was declared to consist 
of Balle Ui Uidrin and Baile Ui Comgain. In the monastic Charters, at a 
later period, in this century, we find abundant examples of it, as appears 
by the following list :— 
In MacLoughlin’s charter to Newry, among 20 denominations, one 
bale—namely, Balenatin.§ 
* Is bdile inso sis as incertus, ‘there is a place here below that is doubtful,’ fol. 11 
ab. See Stokes’s Glosses, p. 156. i 
+ Book of Lecan, fol. 164 ba, cited in Ordnance Memoir of Templemore, p. 210. 
$ See Stokes’s Irish Glosses, p. 48, n. 110. 
§ In Aleuin’s letter to Colen (A. D. 794), we meet with “et ad Australes fratres 
Baldhunincga,” which name Colgan supposed to be a compound of Baile, and Chuinnigh, 
or Cainnech, so as to represent Bailechuinnigh or Cillchainnich, that is, Kilkenny. (Acta 
Sanctor., p. 380 6, n. 17); and, after him, Dr. Lanigan proposed Baile-Dunsginne or 
Lismore. (Eccl. Hist., vol. iii., p. 232, n. 45.) But their conjectures are untenable. 
Colgu was surnamed Ua Duinechda, and to this there seems to be some similarity in 
the latter clause of the name. See Ussher’s Sylloge, Ep. 18 (Wks. vol. iv. p. 467). 
|| Aberdeen, a long list of Jals, but no dally; Argyll, numerous balles, only 5 bals 5 
Ayr, the dals predominate; Dumbarton, dal principally; Elgin, bal; Fife, bal; Forfar, 
bal numerously ; Inverness, bal and ballie; Kincardine, bal; Kirkcudbright, bal ; 
Perth, bal and balli ; Ross and Cromarty, dalli and bal ; Stirling, dal ; Wigton, bal. 
{ Monast. Anglican. vol. ii. p. 1031 @; Eccles. Antiqq. of Down and Connor, p. 117 
