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Townland. Parish. Barony. County. 
12, Donacumorrt, Donaghmore, Salt, North, Kildare. 
13. Donacumore, Rathdowney,  Clandonagh, Queen’s County. 
14. Donacumors, St. Patrick’s, Shillelogher, Kilkenny. 
15. DonoveHmore, Dunbin, Dundalk, Up. Louth. 
16. DonovcHmore, Fertagh, Galmoy, Kilkenny. 
17. Dunnamore,  Kildress, Dungannon, Tyrone.* 
One, and only one Donaghbeg appears, namely, in the parish of Cloon- 
clare, county of Leitrim ;+ but this is not an exception to the rule, in- 
asmuch as it is only a portion or sub-denomination of Donaghmore, in 
the same parish, given in comparatively modern times, when the original 
usage of the word Donagh, that is Dominica, was forgotten. 
Pistil is a British adoption of the Latin “ fistula,” t and is applied to 
a pipe, or channel, or stream; borrowed from it, we have Glaspistol, in 
the parish of Clogher, county of Louth, and Cloghpistole, in the parish 
of Newtownlennan, county of Tipperary. 
We find the compound name Drumshanbo applied to a townland in 
the parish of Cloone, barony of Mohill, county of Leitrim, and to ano- 
ther in the parish of Kiltoghert, in the barony of Leitrim, and same 
county; as also to another in Kildress parish, county of Tyrone. And 
this name is interpreted ‘‘the ridge” or “back of the old cow,” —a desig- 
nation taken from the peculiar outline of the rising ground, on the same 
principle that Cynoscephale, or ‘‘ Dogs’-Heads,’”’ was given to certain 
eminences in Thessaly ; or Gamala to a ridge in Palestine, because, as 
Josephus says, its profile resembled the hunch on a camel’s back.§ 
In various counties we have the name Corran, which is the Irish for 
a reaping-hook, applied to townlands, in reference to some local pecu- 
liarity ; but nowhere more remarkably than in the Corran of Larne, 
whose sickle-shaped configuration on the map justifies the name, and 
brings up to mind the various Drepana of Grecian antiquity. 
Endless are the curious applications and combinations of Irish words 
which such an Index presents to view. Whata boon to Irish topography 
would the forthcoming compilation be, if it had but one column more, 
namely, an etymological one. There is no member of society, from the 
* To the above may be added the parish of Donaghmore, barony of Upper Iveagh, 
county of Down, where the townland Glebe, on which the church stands, was formerly 
known as Donaghmore; also the parish of Donaghmore, in Muskerry East, county of 
Cork, East; and the parish of Donaghmore, barony of Clanwilliam, county of Limerick. 
These, with the instances given above, amount to twenty; and by the absence of a corre- 
sponding Donaghbeg, show that the mor in their composition is an absolute, not a relative 
term. 
t Situate a little to the east of Manorhamilton.—Ordnance Survey, sheet 11, N. E. 
angle. 
= Fons, ‘quem Pistyll Dewi, fistulam David vocant.” Girald. Cambrens. Itin. Cambr. 
ii. 1 (p. 858, ed. Camden). ‘‘ Rivulus Sancti Cadoci, qui Brittannice Pistill Cattue ap- 
pellatur.” Vit. S. Cadoci, c. 24, Rees, Cambro-British Saints, p. 71. 
§ Jewish War, iv. 1, 1. 
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