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and most likely it designates the present townland. Consequenl on agri 

 cultural improvements (?), a fairly clean sweep has been made of the former 



antiquities ; the only items surviving are —one large circular lios, almost 

 perfect, and a solitary pillar-stone, five feet high by three feet six inches and 

 one foot nine inches — both on Mr. James Cashman's farm. On surface of the 

 pillar-stone are some natural cup-hollows. Built into a gate-pier, at entrance 

 to the field in which stands the pillar-stone, I found an ogham-inscribed slab 

 which I had removed to University College, Cork. 1 The inscription which, 

 unfortunately, is incomplete, reads : " Olagni Maqi . . . ." (Of Olagnos, the 

 Son of . . . .). Sub-denominations are very few, and portion of the townland 

 lies within the neighbouring parish of Kilquane. 



S.DD. Pairc 'Ard -" High Field." 



Bogach 'Arc! — " Elevated Swamp." The name is applied to a field now 

 quite dry and arable, but sporadically producing bog-plants which testify, as 

 does the name, to its former marshy character. 



Bridesoavn Baile na Bride, ats, Cnoc an Chatha — " Homestead by the 

 Bird's Paver," otherwise " Hill of the Battle." Area, 905 a. I got the first 

 name from P. Murphy, Edmondstown, and the second from P. Kennedy, who 

 could not say for certain whether it was a synonym for the first or merely 

 designative of a sub-division of the latter. I failed to find local corroboration 

 of the second name ; the first was amply corroborated, although the Ordnance 

 Surveyors do not record any Irish form. Seasoning from failure of the 

 Surveyors to find (or record) an Irish form, it looks as if the present official 

 name is modern ; moreover, we do not find it in the usual seventeenth-century 

 documents. From its appearance, however, I am inclined to think it some 

 centuries old. 



S.DD. " Bride Paver " (O.M.) — Bride ; the name of a Celtic goddess, 

 from root Bri, strength, &c. Compare Brigantes, the name of a well-known 

 Celtic tribe. Our present Bride, which joins the Blackwater, is sometimes 

 styled Bride Barracha to distinguish it from the P>. Muscraidhe. a tributary 

 of the Lee. 



Cuile — " Back Place," the name (locative case) 3 of a well-known sub- 

 division. Cvil, gen. ciiil, and ciiil, gen. cuile, are very difficult, and often 

 impossible, to distinguish in place-names. Of course one is masculine and 



by a stream or marsh ; even this does not explain away the difficulty, for the oilcan is 

 not always so surrounded. Perhaps the word had reference to proprietorship or estate ; 

 the place may have been a small property surrounded on all sides by another estate. 



1 See "Ivernian Journal," vol. vi, pp. 201, &c. 



3 Use of the dative (locative) for the nominative is fairly frequent in Irish place- 

 names. The usage doubtless arose from association of the name with the idea of motion 

 thither or thence. 



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