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as well as the most notable on the list). The city is now a poor village 
of about twenty cabins. 
As one, at least, of the O’Byrnes named in the inscription is de- 
scribed as a burgess of Old Leighlin, it should be noted that that 
designation conveyed more than the ordinary meaning of citizenship. 
In the thirteenth century Bishop Harlewin bestowed burgages, or 
dwelling-houses, on the burgesses of Leighlin, accompanied by a grant 
of the franchises of Bristol, reserving to his See a yearly grant of 12d. 
out of each burgage. 
The liberties extended about a mile and a-half round the town, and 
were defined by large boundary stones, inscribed, ‘‘ Terminus Burgens. 
. Leighlinen . hie lapis est’’ (Ledwich), some of which are still extant. 
The name ‘‘ Burgage”’ still survives as that of the seat of the Vigors 
family. 
The other places mentioned are Ballenebrenagh and Corraloski. 
Ryan says they were in the immediate neighbourhood of Leighlin. 
The former will be found indicated on the O.S. Map. Mr. Vigors 
tells me it ‘‘is a townland about three miles north of Old Leighhn, 
and the name is in every-day use. Corraloski,”’ he adds, ‘‘is not so 
certain, but one of the oldest men living at Old Leighlin told me that 
there was a place known as Craanloski, adjoining the Ballenebrenagh 
above-named, and between it and Old Leighlin.” In the Idrone map, 
before referred to, appears the name Caronloss, about midway between 
Leighlin and Carlow, on the Kilkenny side of the Barrow, about two 
miles from the river. 
The name rather resembles Cloaghruish, between which and Kille- 
nane, at the head of Glan Reynald, near Leighlin (as is recorded in 
Dowling’s Annals under 1522), Maurice Doran, Bishop of that See, 
was, in 1529, barbarously murdered by his archdeacon, Maurice Kava- 
nagh—probably one of the family commemorated by these tombs. 
Clougherouske, in Clanreynold, is mentioned in a Chancery Roll of 
1548 (Morrin, i. 178), and this is doubtless the place twice mentioned 
in connexion with the members of the O’ Byrne family in the following 
document :— 
‘Inquisition at Carlow, September, 1625.—Richard late bishop of Leighlin 
was seised of Killenu and Garrebrit in county Carlow, and with the assent and 
consent of the dean and chapter of the cathedral of St. Lazarian of Leighlin, by 
deed dated 8th December, 1589, granted them to Henry Sheftielde of Fennors-court in 
said county, his heirs and assigns for ever—said Henry, by deed dated lst May, 1691, 
in consideration of a sum of money, conveyed same lands to Mortagh M‘Tirlagh 
Birne of Cloughrousk, and Fferdorrogh O’Gormogane of Grangefort in county of 
Carlow ; and aforesaid Mortagh and Fferdorrogh by writing dated 2nd May, 1602, 
granted to Edmond Birne of Cloughrouske all and singular the said lands.—Held 
of the king by knight’s service.”’ 
The exhortation which closes the 1555 inscription runs thus, 
commencing with a distich :— 
“¢O vos omnes qui transitis 
Rogo nostri memores sitis. 
Fuimus quod estis. Fueritis aliquando quod sumus.”’ 
