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monument, I give a plan. It has two chambers, 1 the eastern, 3 feet 1 inch 

 long, tapering from 4 feet 8 inches to 4 feet 7 inches, the other, 5 feet long 

 and 4 feet 4 inches wide to the east. At the west end are two stones, like a 

 small gate. The cover measures 9 feet by 6 feet, and another slab at the west 

 end, 4 feet by 3 feet, beyond which was an enclosure 17 feet 2 inches wide of 

 set slabs, the west side removed. 



Ballyvoony 0. S. 32). About 10 miles across the bay, to the north-east 

 of the last, we find a fortified headland, in the Barony of Decies without 

 Drum, not far from the village of Stradbally. 3 It lies in the ancient tribe- 

 land of the O'Brics, between their stronghold at Dane's Island and the fine 

 little cliff-fort of Island Hubbock. Stradbally mill and Comeryth are men- 

 tioned in 1298 as part of the Manor of Dungarvan, and worth £6 15s. b\d. 

 per annum, and Stradbally was held by one Galfrid le Xorragh in 1318. 3 



I know of no early entries relating to Ballyvoony ; it derives its name, 

 Baile Ui Mhughnaidh, from the Meany or Moony family, and was part of 

 the estate of the attainted Mac Thomas (Eichard), who had, in 1589, joined 

 the Earl of Desmond in rebellion. It paid a head-rent of 6s. Sd. to the 

 Crown.* Queen Elizabeth granted it after its forfeiture to Eichard Beacon 

 as " Ballyvonye " in 1590. 5 James Sherlock fitz John died in October, 1601, 

 holding Ballymacdavid and Ballyvoony 3 ; he was succeeded by his son 

 James Sherlock fitz James, who held it under a mortgage to his father in 

 1615 as Ballyvoonye. 7 After the great civil war, Mary Beale was confirmed 

 in Ballyvoony in Decies, under the Act of Settlement in 1667, and 

 Sir Charles Wheeler in 1669. 5 The fort lies not far from the well of " lubber 

 cil Eilhe," notable for its ogham-stones inscribed " Qrit maqi Lobaton avi 



Nia-Gracolina " and " Netafroqi maqi t ." 9 An ancient road, " Bothairin 



a chapaill," runs from Kilrossenty 1 - to the coast, near Ballyvoony. 



1 Unless the cist has been divided, idly or for some unknown reason, in later times. 



2 Journal R- Soc. Antt. Ir.. vol. xxxvi, p. 251. 



3 Plea Rolls, No. 119, xi Ed. II. m. 3, and No. 123, m. 6, dorso. See also ann. xxvi, 

 m- 38, Report Dep. K. R. Ir., p. 41. 



4 Inq. Chancery. Eliz., No. 1. 



5 Fiant No. 5536. 



6 Inq. Exchr., Jas. I, No, 8. 



7 Inq. Chancery. Jas. I, No. 11. 



; Conf. Act Sett. Roll, anno six, Car. II, pars 2, f. No. 114. and anno xxi, pars 5. f. 



See R. R. Brash, ." Ogham -Inscribed 3Ionuments of the Gaedhil," pp. 255-6 ; (Sir) 

 S. Ferguson. " Ogham Inscriptions," p. 77. and (Professor) R. A. S. Macalister, "Irish 

 Epigraphy," Part I, p. 8 ; Part II, p. 55. 



10 For Kilrossenty, see Papal Taxation. 1302. Kilrosnetyn. value £7 10s. 0d.. tenth 

 15 shillings ; also Plea R., No. 125, anno xii Ed. II, m. 8 : Kylrossynt, No. 133, xiv 

 Ed. II, m. 13 dorso. Waterford and S. E. I. Arch. Soc., iii, p. 6 ; x, p. 200. 



