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narn-bawnoge," is in Glen West, on the hill to the east of the south harbour 

 another is in Croha West ; three more in Comillane ; the western had fallen 

 before 1840 ; another stands to the north-west of the Croha stone ; and 

 another, but little over 4 feet high, in a fence near Dunthoniais. 



Of church remains, the chief is the late fifteenth-century church of Temple- 

 kieran, with its well Tobarkieran, near Trakieran strand. 1 The ruin is 

 probably on the site of a far older church, dedicated to St. Ciaran ; it measures 

 40 feet by 14 feet 6 inches inside ; the walls are about 8 feet high. The east 

 window, a mere slit, has a curious head, with two small pointed opes, leaving a 

 cusp between, cut in a single block. Similar, but larger, windows are found 

 at Kilbreedy, near Kilmallock, and elsewhere, but are rare in Ireland. The 

 splays of it and the south window are plain, oblong, and lintelled. The 

 south door is roughly made of small slabs, and is pointed ; the only other 

 features are two ambries, which I remember on my former visit as filled with 

 skulls. There is a long buttress running southward from the south-east 

 angle. 2 I have already noted the cross-scribed rounded pillar-stone at the 

 strand. 



Near the middle of the island is Killickaforavane children's burial-ground, 

 while another lallcen is named Kilmoon, and lies near the Comillane pillar ; 

 no trace of the buildings remains at either graveyard. Tobar Kilvroon has a 

 holed stone called Cloch-na-geallamh. 3 



Ivagha Pexixsula (0. S. 138, 146-148). 



The first of the great peninsulas of Western Cork lies between Dunmanus 

 Bay and Soaring Water Bay, in the barony of West Carbery, running 

 16 miles to 18 miles out into the sea. Having been held within recorded 

 history by the Ui Ecach, or the descendants of Eochaidh, called the " Ivagha" 

 in Tudor times, I use the term " Ivagha Peninsula." The form is better than 

 " lveagh," as the latter is the familiar spelling of a tribe in Ulster. It is used 

 in the well-known map of Speed, about 1610, as "Erajh " (recte Evagh), the 

 ■' peninsula" distinguishing it from the other tribelands, which extend even to 

 Cork aud to near Fermoy. " Tertium prornontoriuni est Ivaugh, inter Bantre 

 et Baltimor." The best-known fisheries on the south coast were at Evagh. 

 The Spaniards and Portuguese frequented them for the cod fishery. 4 Near 



1 It is covered by high tides, being a mere hollow in the strand. 



2 See R. Soc. Antt. Ir. Handbook, vi, p. 147, and Dr. R. Cochraue's account in Cork 

 H. and A. Journal, xviii, p. 2. 



3 Through which lovers plighted troth, as at the stone of Stennis, in the Orkneys, and 

 elsewhere. 



4 Lansdowne MB., Brit. Mus., 242. 



