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few references to some of tie churclies, &c., quoted by my colleague, 

 Mr. T. J. "Westropp, in the preceding section, the only mention of this 

 district I have been able to come across are in. the notes to OTlaherty's 

 H'lai' Connaught, in which a quotation from the Indenture of Com- 

 position states that in 1585 the castle of Arde was held by " Teige IS'e 

 Booly" (luile) OTlahertie of the Arde, otherwise called OTflahertie of 

 both Con O'llanice {Connemaras), and from an inquisition taken in 

 1607 he still ruled there. This Teige na buile is still famous in local 

 legend as a tyrant. The district can thus be said to have really no 

 history, apart from that of the distiict (lar Connaught) to which it 

 belongs, and I can find no record of any influx of people from other 

 districts to alter the old strain, and indeed there would be little to 

 tempt them to such a barren district. 



Father Finlay, to whose excellent article on this region I have 

 before refen'ed, thiriks that the congestion of the coast districts is of 

 recent growth, not more than a century or so. 



