488 
‘To such an etymon it is rather damaging to turn to the Index, and 
find 40 townlands called Clogher scattered all over Ireland, and 35 more 
having the same word in composition. 
In like manner Caisel, or Cashel, the royal residence of Munster, is 
derived by Keating from Ctos-azl, ‘‘tribute-rock,” as being the depository 
of the provincial revenues. This etymon, so opposed to analogy and 
sense, is utterly refuted, when the Townland Index shows 90 instances 
of the word in various parts of the kingdom. 
The Ivish carhnaé, signifying ‘a field,” is omitted in O’Reilly’s 
Dictionary, yet the Index gives a hundred instances of the word, either 
simply or in combination.* 
The British word aber is only found in the east and north-west of 
Scotland, but does not occur in Argyle or proper Irish region, and we 
would expect that this was indicative ofits absence from Ireland. And 
such is found to be the case, at least as regards townland names—cnver 
in use, but its equivalent aber not found. 
A note on the name Seanchus Mor, in one of the Brehon-Law manu- 
scripts observes that, though the term mor, or ‘‘ great,’’ formed part of 
this title, it was not distinctive, and that there was no correlative in the 
form Seanchus Beg ; instancing, as an illustration, the fact, that, though 
there were many places in Ireland called Domhnach Mor, there were 
none called Domhnach Beg.t Such an assertion is worth testing. Ac- 
cordingly, the Index gives :— 
Townland. Parish. Barony. County. 
1. Donacumore, Cloonclare, Drumahaire, Leitrim. 
2. Donacumorz, Donaghmore, Ballaghkeen, Wexford. 
3. Donacumore, Donaghmore,  Clandonagh, Queen’s County. 
4, Donacumore, Donaghmore, Dungannon, Tyrone. 
5. DonacHmore, Donaghmore, Fassadinin, Kilkenny. 
6. DonacumorE, Donaghmore, Ibane, Cork, West. 
7. Donacumore, Donaghmore,  Iffa & Offa, E., Tipperary, 8. 
8. DonacumorzE, Donaghmore, Navan, L., Meath. 
9. DonacHmuorr, Donaghmore,  Raphoe, Donegal. 
10. Donacumore, Donaghmore, Ratoath, Meath. 
11. Donacumort, Donaghmore, ‘Talbotstown, U. Wicklow. 
* The church of Tamnach is mentioned as early as theBook of Armagh (fol. 15 aa). 
It is now Tawnagh, in the barony Tierrill, county of Sligo. 
+ In the neighbourhood of Ballyshannon, the Donegal Inquisitions of the seventeenth 
century give us the word ebber in the sense of a “gut” or ‘‘ channel ;” and in an Inqni- 
sition, No. 10, Jac. I., we find Abbernacapple ; 18 Car. I., Abbirnellane ; 30 Car. I., 
Abbermun ; and, what is startlingly like the Aberdour of Aberdeen and Fife, in Scotland, 
Abberdoury (No. 10, Jac. I.) 
t ‘‘It is not because there was a [Senchus] Bec in existence [from which to contra- 
distinguish it], but on account of the great number of the men of Erin who were at the 
making of it, and at the arranging of it. As every place where Patrick used to remain 
on Sunday is called Domnach mor, that is, from the number of the hosts who used to be 
about him, and used to give him great gifts. Domnach beg does not at all occur,”— 
MS. Translated from H. 3, 18, Trin. Coll. Dubl., p. 359 6. 
