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the other feminine; but the gender is of little help, since both words generally 

 appear at the beginning of the name. It is some comfort in the matter that 

 the words do not differ greatly in meaning. 



Poll Lughaidh— " Drowning Place (Pool) of Louis "; a deep pool in the 

 Bride, the name of which has been corrupted to Poll-a-Wig, in popular 

 usasre. 



Poillin na "bhFod— " Little Liver-Hole of the (Turf; Sods," in allusion 

 probably to the use of burning turf in poaching. 



"The Turning Hole," a third river-hole and small whirlpool well known 

 to anglers and poachers. 



Ceim — ' 1' sub-div. containing some twenty acres. 



CNOPPOGB, Cnapog — ••Knoll." Area, 330 A, This townland is almost 

 entirely uninhabited, although as long ago as the year before the famine 

 twenty-live acres of it were under cultivation. 



S.D. Seefin (O.M.) Suidhe Finn— "The Sitting Place of Fionn 

 (Mac Cumhaill) "; a name of frequent application to mountain peaks 

 and cairns. The present Suidht is at the extreme north-east angle of the 

 townland, and at an elevation of 1392 P( 



Bunnaglanna, Pun a Ghleanna — " Glen Bottom (End." Area, 247a. 

 The old people use Bun a Bhaile, " Village End," as a synonym. Agricultural 



npation is recent, and that the name is comparatively modern is suggested 

 by its absence from ancient documents. 



SJDD. P - - Watei Serpent": I give the name as I got it, 



though I cannot explain it> application here i" a field. 



Poll an Rudaire— "The Knight's Pool"; a hole in the Bride Liver, 

 _ ht's drowning pi 



Connlacb Liath ("Grey Stubble"), CuiTach ("Swamp"), Ban-a Leacan 

 Summit of tl "), Fiadhnan ("Wild Place I Moin Loman 



Bare M : : md Cnoc&n Ruadh ("Little Red Hill") — the names 



of a numl Ids. 



CasRIO, ' s -"Rock." i t, 325 a.; a long and narrow strip of 



mountain land, thinly populated, and in part uninhabited. 



3.DD.— Two fiel pS na Ghairdin and Seana Phairc — 



"Old Garden "and "Old Field." 



i'ihmnkyfiki ' P a tSimne' — " Field of the Chimney." Area, 141a. 

 I name ed from a ruined house with a standing chimney, 



once almost the only artificial feature on the townland. Reclamation has 

 been recent. Ath a Duna appears to have been the older name. The Dun 

 is not necessarily a rath or lios oi any artificial structure at all ; sometimes, 

 especially in glens and mountain it it a natural mound, simulating 



