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68. Sqia.p& r\t>. ntlA-ti, " ledge of the lambs." 



69. Leic &' C&onc&inn, "flagstone of the rowantree," probably the rock 

 marked on O.S. map (Mayo 84), close to the foot of the cliff, about an inch 

 to the left of the place where the boundary between Lecarrow and Bunna- 

 mohaun townlands ends at the cliff on the N.W., and on the edge of the 

 Ordnance sheet. 



70. An Aitt lfl6p, " the great cliff," the main slope from the summit of 

 An Cnoc til op (1520 ft.) to the water-edge. 



Ooghduff, on 0. S. sheet 84, at the place where the shore-line begins to 

 bend to S.-W., can only stand for &n I1&ic "6ub, " the black cave." I did not 

 get the name from my guide. See 14&imin "Outo, 65. 



71. pott &' "Quit, " hole or pool of the ( . . . ?)." Among the meanings 

 given by O'Eeilly for t)ut, the following may be pertinent ; " a snare, trap, 

 spring, gin; fishing with nets." It is, however, to be noted that for vol, 

 O'Eeilly gives " a kind of fishing-net ;. . . . a snare ; link of hair." We may 

 suspect some confusion here between ■out, with long u, and vol. with short o, 

 possibly through an alternative spelling, -out, for the latter word. In the 

 sense of " a snare for fishing " — combining somewhat the meanings assigned 

 by O'Eeilly to both words — tJot is the correct form. In Irish-English, 

 " dulling for trout " is well known, — the fish as they lie still in a pool are 

 snared with a noose of horsehair. 



72. C&pp&ij; pott &' "Quit, probably the sea-rock marked on the map 

 beneath the name Altairuffaun. 



73. Aitt cSpupAm, "cliff of rivulet," the western part of the great cliff. 

 Spu]:An, in Connacht dialect, = pnuc«.\n. After t, 11, p, the aspirated p (= h) 

 often becomes c (written then cf or cp). The 0. S. version of the name 

 Altatrufaun, as with Tonaltatarrive, above, is an error likely to have been 

 made by one familiar with the topographical nomenclature of Ulster. 



74. Aitte Lea.cu-6, "cliff of ( . . . ?)." The final syllable of te&cu-o may 

 be phonetically represented by hiiw, the w being very lightly sounded, uw 

 nearly represents the Connacht and Ulster pronunciation of the unstressed 

 ending -&t> in verbs and nouns. In Aitte here, I am uncertain whether the 

 final vowel is a mere helping vowel between final t and initial t, or represents 

 the shortened form of the article — Aitt &(n) te&c^t), but a masculine 

 genitive te&cA-o is most unlikely. I could not get an explanation of the 

 name, and can only suggest that it stands for &itt te^coub, " half-black 

 cliff," though in that case we should expect the article before -colt. One 

 thing certain is that the 0. S. from Alldhan is quite wrong, being an evident 

 attempt to solve the difficulty of the name by inventing a new one, Aitt 

 te^c&n, "broad cliff." Here again it is evident that the Survey official knew 



