-1 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Abbreviations Used. 



A.F.M. Annals of the Four Masters. 



A.S.E. Acts of Settlement and Explanation (seventeenth century . 



B.S.D. Books of Survey and Distribution (seventeenth century). 



I • - Down Survey (maps and references). 



Inq. Inquisition. 



O.M. Six-Inch Ordnance Map. 



S.DD. Sub-denominations of Townland. 



Sub-div. Sab-division. 



T.t\. Papal Taxation (twelfth century). 



Visit. Ecclesiastical Visitation Book end of sixteenth or beginning "i 

 :iteeiitli century . 



BAKONTf n| BAHEYMOEE. 



The me primarily from the A rormau De Barrys, 



whose lerrit ' particularly, however, the name came from 



the Lords Barrymoiv, wh a iring it was constituted at 



an earl ■ _ ■ - l'i (Uibh) Leathain, Le. the 



tribal land ted in Castle Lyons. Ui Lehaue 



probably embrace rymore is a barony of large extent. 



embracing twenty-nine parishes and pa _ ighly 



some 153,000 aci I • the great and little islands, are the 



islands 9 II iwlbowlini and Harper's, &c, in Cork Barbour. 



Fermoy and Cundons' baronies bound it >ni the nurth ; Barretts', Cork, and 

 Kerrycurrihy on the lourand Imokilly on the south, and 



Kinnatalloon and Imokilly on the east. Physically, Barrymore is undulating, 

 or, rath' ily hilly, in character, but there is little actual mountain. 



The soil is of at lea- ind the condition of the people is 



comfortable in the main. Through the barony run the main Cork-Fermoy 

 and Cork- Youghal roads, and this ipled with the situation of towns 



like Lurk, Midi practically on its borders, explains to 



some extent the considerable Anglicization that has taken place. Irish is 

 hardly spoken at all at the present time, and in some parishes I found great 

 difficulty in dis an Irish speaker who could remember the tra- 



ditional pronunciation of the names. Fortunately, hoi esuetude of 



the native tongue that much of the folk-lore is still recoverable. 



The picturesque and homely thatched hom of the nineteenth and 



1 Book of Leinster. y>. 300 ; Martyr. Donegal, p. 129. 



