O'Hanlon — Antiquities in Killenny and Kinteale Parishes. 143 



XXI. — Notes on some Undescetbed Antiquities in the Parishes 

 of Killenny and Kllte a le, Queen's County. By the Rev. John 

 O'Hanlon, M.R.I. A. 



[Read June 24, 1872.] 



To preserve correct representations of the fast-fading monuments of 

 other days — especially of those local objects which have not yet en- 

 gaged notice from the antiquary and draftsman — induces the writer 

 to prepare this communication for the Members of the Royal Irish 

 Academy. A few years hence, the mouldering ruins, and the notes 

 which refer to this subject, may leave scarcely a vestige of former 

 appearance, or historical interest. Old popular traditions vanish as a 

 shadow, if not consigned to record, while such memorials remain. 

 With each revolving year, our ancient monuments are becoming more 

 dilapidated, and less numerous ; and even on the Ordnance Survey 

 Maps, as will here be shown, no clue is afforded to the antiquarian 

 investigator for the identification of several well-known local and 

 historic relics or denominations. 



KILLENNY PARISH 



in the Barony of Stranbally, and containing 945a. 3e. 12p., is 

 bounded on the north and west by a small stream,* which, al- 

 though unnamed on the Ordnance Survey Map, runs for a con- 

 siderable distance in an easterly course, uutil it flows into the 

 River Barrow, immediately under Longphort-Rothlaibh,t known 

 as the present Fort of Dunrally.J East and south, Killenny § is 

 bounded by the parish of Kilteale. 



Within the townland of Killenny proper are the church ruins of 

 this parish. The building appears to have been one of great anti- 



* On the Exchequer Rolls, No. 12, referring to the Fourth Year of Edward YI.'s 

 reign, it is pointed out, as forming the northern boundary of Leyse, " aquam de 

 Glaishemarrow usque aquam de Barrow," &c. Tiiis document is now preserved in 

 the Record Office, Dublin. The little stream which runs into the River Barrow, 

 separating in part the parish of Coolbanagher, in the barony of Portnahineh, trorn 

 the barony of Stradbally, is called the River Glashaevaragh, in a survey made by 

 .lohn Mason, a. d , 1657, for Sir William Petty. The ''grassy streamlet," it has 

 been rendered by William M. Hennessy, M.R.I. A., and such a name the surround- 

 ing margins render very appropriate. 



t In the year 860, on the 5th of September Ides, a Chieftain named Cinnedich, 

 who was son to Gaithin, the Lord of Leix, demolished Longfort Rothlaibh, now 

 called Dunrally. This place lay in the townland of Courtwood, and parish of Lea, 

 quite near the River Barrow, on the boundary line between Leix and Clann-Mac- 

 lughra. See Dr. O'Donovan's Annals of the Four Masters, Vol. 1., pp. 496, 497. 

 and n, (x.) Ibid. This chieftain was afterwards slain by his own people. 



j The ancient Irish name for this entrenchment was Oun TCucleib, a place 

 of historic note.' 



§ In Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, this parish is not only most 

 imperfectly, but even most inaccurately, described. See Vol. II., p. 135. 



