OLDEN—On some Ancient Remains at Kilmaclenine. 125 
pay. In the same rental O’ Henwonhan (Noonan) of Tullylease, one of 
the few chieftains who retained their position as tenants of Church land, 
is set down as holding but one carrucate of land, whereas at the earlier 
date, 1364, his predecessor, Donald, ‘‘ cognovit se tenere de Domino 
Tullales totam integram que continet in se septem carrucatas terre.” 
Evidently the bishop’s temper must have been tried with his 
tenants, but worst of all was the doubt which was raised as to his 
title. The burgesses, not satisfied with the original grant of Bishop 
David, sought a confirmation of it from Bishop Daniel (1249), who 
accordingly executed an elaborate deed of confirmation which many 
witnesses attested. This was further confirmed by the Dean of Cloyne, 
Magister Gilbertus, and the ‘“‘ major et senior pars capituli,’”’ and the 
deed sealed with their common seal. But the bishop’s constant diffi- 
culty was with Barry of Kilmaclenine, who occupied in later times the 
modern castle which I have mentioned. Each seems to have claimed 
the chief lordship of the estate, and here the burgesses came to the 
bishop’s aid, as we see by an entry of the finding of a jury of eight 
burgesses with the provost: ‘‘ gui dicunt per sacramentum quod dominus 
Episcopus Clonensis est capitalis dominus de Kylmaclenyn et quod nullus 
dominus est ibidem nist solus Episcopus.”® The Roll is silent as to his 
opponent, but the omission is supplied by a slab, which was found some 
years ago at a considerable depth in Mallow churchyard, and has been 
since built into the wall for preservatien. It contains the following in- 
scription in uncial characters much contracted :—‘‘ Mie jacet Jacobus 
filius Withelmi de barry in temporalibus dominus de Kylmaclenyn.” 
This posthumous assertion of his right shows exactly what the point 
in dispute was. The date is supposed to be the beginning of the fif- 
teenth century. 
When the colony was established, and all the bishop’s plans carried 
out, Kilmaclenine must have been an interesting spot. <A spectator, 
looking from the high ground near the ancient tomb, would see to his 
left the primeval forest extending as far as the eye could reach; to 
the north ; about five miles off, the bluff head-land of Ceann Abhra (now 
Ballyhoura) stood out; eastward from it ran the long range of Shabh 
Caein, famous in Irish history, closing in the horizon like a wall, and 
broken only by the deep cleft known to colonists as ‘‘the Red Share,” 
and to the natives as Deana polo, ‘the Pass of Blood.” 
Beneath in the valley were the buildings of the new colony—the 
Mote perched on its lofty crag, the little church where the villagers 
worshipped, the wooden houses in which they ived—all was fresh and 
new, and the future was full of hope. On every side the hum of in- 
dustry arose—the villagers were busy plying their trades ; the biatachs 
pasturing their flocks and herds on the ‘“‘ terras dominicas domint,” or, 
according to the season, sowing the bishop’s ‘‘ semen hyemale or quadra- 
gesimale,”’ or ‘‘tassantes et sarculantes bladum domini”’; the bishop’s 
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