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in the reign of Elizabeth, and his rebel son, Conehobar O'Driscoll. Their 

 chief was inaugurated in presence of MaeCarthy More, who handed him a 

 white rod in token of power, and took numerous imposts, down to the 

 Elizabethan changes, " Ciod Ihye, Duff Yeeks or Black Eente, Dollysawny, 

 and Baultynye or cess.'" In the quaint lines of Hanmer, 2 " the Carties 

 plaied the divells in Desmond . . . ; at length, through the operation of Satan, a 

 bane of discord was throwen between the Carties and O'Driscoles, O'Donovaies, 

 &c. . . ., and the Desmond in the end overcame and overtopped them all," 3 the 

 same vicious circle of events always recurring. The tribal land was also 

 Cothluighe mor in 1215/ Coulymore, 1549. Colleymore and Colleybeg are 

 best shown by the rural deaneries ; these, in 1302, were Obathumpna, Boss, 

 and Corkyghueragh (or Micrus to Akadun) ; the first lay between Thamolagi 

 (Timoleague) and Boss-Carbery ; and, in 1315, Colleymore is given as 

 including the parishes of Myross, Glanbarahaue, Tullagh (Baltimore), 

 Creagh, Kilcoe, Aghadown, and Cleere. There were many subdivisions ; from 

 Baltimore to Loch Eidnigh (Hyne) lay Fethnahimghona, at Coosdoona ; 

 eastward lay the Ocowhigs and Ui Fithceallaigh (now Feelys and Fields) in 

 Tuath Fithceallaigh from Dundeady to Cloghnakilty, The O'Driscolls once 

 extended to the Old Head as the legend of Nede (circa 900) implies. Bast 

 Bosscarbery, or Tuath Buis, O'Baithin, 5 or Ibane, has left its name on the maps. 

 Bound the Old Head lay Criochchursey or Courceys ; past Kinsale, Kinelea; 6 

 beyond Cork Harbour, Imokilly. 7 As I hope, later on, to publish elsewhere 

 a study of this most interesting coast, I will not add more to a paper 

 confined so closely to a study of one set of remains, the fortified headlands. 



Types of Promontory Forts. 



I ventured to put forward a classification of promontory forts at the 

 beginning of my survey in 1906. The received English classification, in this, 



1 Inquisition, Chancery, 1608. 



2 " Historie of Ireland " by Meredith Hanmer, d.b., Edmund Campion, and Edmund 

 Spenser (ed. 1633), p. 201, under 1260. 



3 Overtopped even the Normans. The Lords de Courcey paid imposts to them, which 

 the Crown, on Desmond's forfeiture, gave to the town of Kinsale. See Cal. S. P. Ir., 

 p. 548, under June, 1588, for the imposts of the Earls of Desmond. Peyton's Survey 

 and the great Desmond Roll abound in similar information : see Proc. R.I. A., xxvi (c), 

 p. 72. 



4 Dublin Annals of Innisfallen, Trinity College Lib. ; see also 1154, " Amlaeibh 

 O hEidersceoil, prince of Cothluighe, slain in the gate of the church of Birr." 



6 Ui baghamna, Ui badamna, Obathumpna. 



6 Cenel Aedha, the patrimony of Barrach occ, anciently called lnsovena. 



7 Ui maccaile, or Ui mic (Joille. 



