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to see Barry, much to the disappointment of her husband when he 
heard of it on his return, as he knew that Barry, expecting an at- 
tainder, had come to sell his interest in Kilmaclenine. 
Failing to see anyone at Ballyclough, he rode on to Blarney Castle, 
where he disposed of his interest to the proprietor. This was after- 
wards sold by the Jeffreys family, and has been since bought in by Mr. 
Coote, and thus the divided ownership, which had continued for six 
centuries, has come to an end. The fact of such an interest or chief 
rent remaining after the property had passed from the bishop may per- 
haps lead to the suspicion that Barry had the best of the contest with 
him, and was entitled to have himself described on his tombstone as 
“on temporalibus dominus de Kilmaclenine.”’ 
The parish is now indeed waste and desert as to its Mote, its 
church, and its village, but otherwise it is as of old, when the terri- 
tory to which it belongs was described by O’Heerin :-— 
‘‘ The territory of O’Donnegain certainly 
Is the Great Muscraighe of Three Plains 
With the host of the flock abounding Iarann— 
Host of the sunny land of vowed deeds.” 
