8 Proceeding* of the Royal Irish Academy. 



II" I Long Garden"; locally bj garden is meant a tillage- 

 field. 



Paithche — " Paddock or Hurling Field or Fair Green)." 

 Ballinlegane, Baile an Liagain — "Homestead of (beside) the Pillar- 

 Stone." Area, 631a. 



Dallilega (Depositions, lG. r >_>. 



The wonl Baile, by the way, enters into the composition of no lower than 



6,400 Irish townland names. 1 X imes incorporating the term we may regard 



ilmost exclusively of post-invasion origin. The eponymous pillar-stone, 



which stands in Twomey's farm, is a massive, and indeed magnificent, example 



of this cl.ws of monument; it is almost square in horizontal section, and 



measures nearly twelve feel in height by from thirty-eight to forty-live inches 



a the sides, close to the greal dallan, and in the same large field, is a well- 



■ I circular lios of medium area with rampart some six or ei^ht feel 



high, i'ii the townland an- two further lioses, also in fair preservation. 



X.- u the - th-wesl ingle of the townland, on the farm of Mr. • 'ashman, is 



a second, hut much smaller, standing stom — also, apparently, a true dallan. 



S.DD. Seana Bhaile— "Old Homestead (or Village)"; a sub-division, 



consisting of thr ir in large fields, on which a fair was formerly held. 



Faithchinidhe,- "The Paddocks Greens or Hurling 

 FieL 



IVni • Field of the Pillar-stone;" 1 from the great dallan 



above referred to. 



Ban a Bhaile—" Home Field" : it adjoins -The Faheens" above. 



Toll : Well"; now drai I by subterranean aqueduct. 



•■I , : i w.i large fields. 



■•Tic - 1 Fidd," "The Lumpy Field." and "The Lime Field." 



Bishop's I I in -an Easpoig— "The Bishop's Castle." Area, 



? \. 

 The Ordnance Survey field hook- give > »i l<;'ni an I -I ■ < - ) ■- • i u as the Irish 



form : hut I distinctly got Caislean from the only local speaker of Irisl 



intelligent and trustworthy man) who had ever heard an Irish form. I'd haps 



mistake foi ■ lilean oi ersa; the two words could he easily 



The name Ballinaspuigmore occurs in the Depositions of 1652, 



' Reeves, "Townland Distribution of Ireland." 



- In local generally a pillar-atone, with which (Lilian, gallan, liagan and 



cloch fhada an- synonymous. 



Oilean is one of the words of occasional occurrence in Irish place-names, the true 

 f which it is difficult to fix. Often, of course, its force is our English 

 "island" ; hut there are many cases, like the present, in which the literal sei 



able. It has heen suggested that the toponomical oilcan is a small area BUITOunded 



