3 20 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The O.S. map has Sheean as the name of a rock in the sea. The name 

 (Si-oeAn) belongs properly to a hill some distance inland (291). 



57. An tTlAm 1116.06.6, Maumreagh. 1li6.b6c "brown, brindled" (ni6.b 

 " a stripe "), is pronounced ni6.c in Munster ; and this form, spelled reagh or 

 rea, seems to have been habitually adopted in the English writing of place- 

 names. The name on the O.S. map seems to designate a sea-rock. It is 

 properly the name of the adjoining height on the island. 



58. An AiLl llem, " the smooth cliff," at An 1T1 Am Ui6.b6.c, probably takes 

 its name from the absence of coves and promontories. 



59. Uon n6. Sionn&, "butt of the Sionn," at the southern end of An AiU, 

 nei-6. The Siorr is the hill to the east (286). 



60. AiU, riA. m06.inne6.c, Alnamarnagh, "cliff of the limpets." 



61. 5t' 6 - i r ei ^ e ^ ri nA n5e^|\6.tc6.c, "green island of the Geraldines," a 

 large rock, unnamed on the O.S. map, in the sea opposite the southern end 

 of AiU. r\(s mbi.inne6-c. The name, in the form Glassillangaraltach, has been 

 transferred on the map to another rock, 5^ Ai r e, ^ e ^ n m°F> nearly two miles 

 farther westward (76). 



62. 5l&ir"eit,ei.n t> e& 5. " little green island," unnamed on the map, a rock 

 in the sea, S.E. of 5L6i]-eileAn ii6 n5e&n6.'lcA.c ) and close to the western end 

 of the boundary between Ballytoohy More and Ballytoohy Beg townlands. 



63. Ailt U6i]ib. "bull's cliff," south of Sl&ifeiteAn be^j. 



64. Uon Aibt U6.i|ib, " butt of bull's cliff," appears on the map as 

 Tonaltatarrive, as though for Uon Ailc 6.' U6.inb, "butt of the bull's ravine." 

 Abe, " ravine," is very frequent in Ulster topography. It is fairly 

 evident that someone familiar with Ulster Irish was engaged in reducing 

 the place-names of Clare Island to the form in which they appear on the 

 O.S. maps. In this name, Aitt-U6inb becomes an uninflected group-word. 



At this point, the western face of the island ceases to be a sheer lofty 

 cliff and becomes a steep acclivity, rising to the height of 500 yards. On 

 the coast-line of this slope, about a mile and a half in length, the O.S. map 

 has only two names, one of which was not recognized by my guide. His list 

 of names was taken down by me as we passed along in a sailing-boat. I am 

 thus unable to locate with precision the places that the five following names 

 should occupy on the map, which does not give them in auy form. They 

 were noted in the following order : — 



65. 11 6.nnin "Dub, " black cove." 



66. Aill 6.' C&onc&mn, " cliff of the rowantree." 



67. U6iii6.ii n6 Hon, otherwise C6iiin6ij n& 1lon : C6iii6.11, "stump, block " ; 

 C6iim6.c, "a fine field in which daisies, sorrel, and sweet grass grow " ("Old 

 Cormick of Erris," quoted by O'Donovan, Supplt.) ; ti& |\6n, " of the seals." 



