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map has Ooghvunanal (=Uaic bun [or bum] An "fAil), which my guide 

 would not recognize. The name seems genuine, but may have arisen from a 

 mixture of Uaic aii £aiI and bun ti«. hAbAun. My guide also said IIaic 

 Dun nA hAbAnn. 



Oomecnnam/uckmara (= 116.1111111 ha 1Thic ITlApA, "little cave of the sea- 

 pigs [i.e. porpoises] ") is printed on the 0. S. map right below Ooghvunanal ; 

 it is impossible to say what place is designated. The name was not 

 recognized by my guide. Probably it represents IIaic ttlic ha TTlApA, 

 wrongly understood and wrongly located on the map. 



116. poll a' CupAij, Pitacurry, "the hole of the curach or canoe." 

 My guide would not recognize the 0. S. variant, which may be genuine and 

 now obsolete, pre = vulva. 



117. e-itnp '6a pope, "between two ports," the blunt foreland between 

 poll a' CujiAig and pope nA PpAipce. 



118. pope nA pnAifce, Portnaprasky, "Port of the pottage (or, of the 

 wild mustard)." This and pope ha PpAipije were both used by my guide. 

 PjiAireAc, f., gen. ppe-ipge and (of late formation) ppAipje, is the generic 

 name of a number of cruciferous plants and others popularly classed with 

 them. Latin, Brassica. 



119. Ca|ijiai5 a' DnAcAp, " the friar's rock," a sea-rock opposite the mouth 

 of pope iia P]\Aipce. There is a legend connected with the name. 



120. An Cill D15 (DeAg), Kilbeg, "the little church," an islet on the east 

 side of pope iia PpAipje. 



121. bun a' Spin, " gravel bottom," the upper side of the T-shaped cove 

 of Uac CApAill. 5l 1 ' 11 > g en - °f 5l l1Ari . gravel, sand. 



122. Uac CApAill, Ooghcappul, "horse's cove." 



123. pope cSpupAin, 1 "port of stream," a small cove, receiving a tiny 

 stream, east of Uac CApAill. 



124. An LiAjAin, derivative of Iia, gen. I1A5, "a great stone, pillar stone, 

 etc.," east of U&c CApAill. 



125. pope a' Liajahi, Portaleighaun, " port of the great stone." 



126. An 5°b t>ub, " the black beak," the rocky promontory east of Pope 

 a' L1A5A111. 



127. 11a LeApcACAi, "the flagstones," by metathesis for leAcpACAi, a 

 colloquial plural of leAc. West of pope a' CuAille. 



128. pope a' CuAille, Portacoolia, "port of the stake or post," just west 

 of the Pier near the Abbey. The name is placed too far west in the O.S. map. 



129. pope n*. CilleAt), Portnakilly, "port of the church," rather perhaps 



1 The absence of the article may indicate here, as it often does in place-names, that a determining 

 word or words have been dropped after the name. 



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