Wkstropp — Fortified Headlands and Castles, S. Coast Munster. 199 



and Declan detecting the dog, cooked in insult for his dinner, and bringing it 

 to life) are found in the old and the modern legends. The modern makes 

 the revived dog rush up the Comeraghs through Barnawaddera, " the dog's 

 pass." 1 In 1853 there was also a quaint tale of Declan cooping sparrows into 

 a rootless barn, and so miraculously keeping them from the corn ; and 

 another of his turning the outflow of the Blackwater from Whiting Bay to 

 its present bed at Youghal in order to punish some fishermen. 2 



The other chief legends belong to the interesting class connected with the 

 long earthworks and entrenchments in Co. Waterford, evidently ancient 

 roads. 3 The Rian bo Phadruig (from Ardmore by Lismore to Ardfinnan, and 

 perhaps Cashel) is said (as the work of the same name at Ardpatrick, 

 Co. Limerick) to have been ploughed by the horns of St. Patrick's cow. 4 

 Another early road is the Claclh ruadh, meeting the Rian and traceable west- 

 ward ; I found an interesting reference to it in a Chancery Inquisition, 5 giving 

 the mearings of Co. Waterford, in 1625, naming " Mocholippe," the river 

 Bryde and " south to the Bed dytch called Clyero, and so at the said dytch 

 runneth southward by West Tollagh (Tallow), and from the south end of the 

 said Bed dytch eastward." I know no legend of the Gladh Buadli. The 

 Glas Gaibhneach (a wonderful cow, whose legend is so minutely located on 

 the plateaux round the great triple-ringed fort of Cahercommaun in Co. 

 Clare 6 ) is locally reputed to have cut Glenn an earbaiF with her tail. AVhen 



1 "Place Names of theDeeies," p. 138. 



2 See Journal Roy. Soo. Antt. Ir., vol. xxxiii, pp. 355-358. The rare ''Antiquarian 

 Rambles" of F. " O ehille " (Fitzgerald), published 1853, pp. 18, 65, can be consulted. 



3 In my "Ancient Forts of Ireland," p. 139, sect. 56, a disastrous intended 

 " correction " made in press after the paper left my hands turns this into "ancient 

 forts," and a line : "The following are probably early roads " got omitted, altering the 

 entire sense. 



4 See the Rev. P. Power's valuable paper on the Rian Bo, Journal Roy. Soc. Antt. Ir., 

 vol. xxxv, p. 110, his " Place Names of the Decies," p. 369. For the Cladh Ruadh and 

 Cladh Duff, from Kerry Head to Charleville, see Journal Roy. Soc. Antt. Ir., vol. xl, 

 p. 123, sect. 149. For the great defensive "long earthworks," besides "Ancient Forts 

 of Ireland," p. 139, see Mr. De Vismes Kane in Proc. R. I. Acad., vol. xxvii (c), p. 322 ; 

 Canon Lett in the new Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. iii, pp. 23, 67. Mr. Hubert 

 T. Knox has recently added (Journal R. Soc. Antt. Ir., xliv, p. 28) a legend from near 

 Rathcroghan, where a magical boar threw up the Mucklaghs, long parallel mounds, at 

 Cashelrnannanain, Co. Roscommon. 



5 No. 12 of Eliz. Chancery Series, P. R. O. I. It is of great topographical value as 

 giving all the mearing of Co. Waterford in 1587. The curious form Omore is used for the 

 " Awenmore," or Blackwater. 



6 Journal R. S. A. I., vol. xxv, p. 227 ; vol. xxvi, p. 154 ; Folk-Lore, vol. xxiii, p. 89 ; 

 vol. xxiv, pp. 100-103. See original story in " Ordnance Survey Letters "(Clare), vol. i, 

 p. 100. 



7 Peter Power (son of Robert fitz Piers Power, who died 1550) held Ballinerebell in 

 1587 (Inq. Exchr., No. 32). 



