1'ower — Place- Names and Antiquities of H.ti. Cork. 1 1 



a rath in its rounded and regular appearance. At Ihe date of the Ordnance 

 Survey one Catherine Heaphy was engaged in teaching Irish here; there was 

 also, at the same period, a private school attended by about forty pupils, who 

 paid 2s. eacli per quarter for tuition in reading ; 2s. 6</. for tuition in reading 

 and writing ; and 3s. for the whole three R's. 1 



S.D. Carraig an Aifrinn — "Mass Rock"; a natural outcrop or cliff by 

 the river, in the shelter of which, presumably, people met feloniously to 

 worship in the Penal Days of saddening memories. 



COMMONS, Coiniin and Reidh a Choiinin. — Idem. Area, 389 a. ; all 

 mountain, and practically uninhabited. The Ordnance Surveyors'- add a 

 note — "John Hide, Esq., and Pierce Nagle, Esq., each claim the whole as their 

 property. None of it cultivated, but very capable of being so. No rent paid 

 for it." 



S.DD. An Leacht — " The Monumental Pile," on the mountain summit. 

 Leachts deserve to be classed as a special type of rude stone monument; 

 they vary enormously in age — from the Bronze period to the nineteenth 

 century. Even within the past sixty years leachts have been raised to 

 commemorate tragic events like murders and deaths by accident. Leachts 

 — like our present specimen — on mountain summits are of the oldest 

 variety, and date from prehistoric times. 



Eeith Ghorm. "Bluish-Green (Dark) Vein." " Feith,"of rather frequent 

 occurrence in mountain and bog names, is applied to the luxuriant green band 

 or patch which marks the course of a subterranean spring. In the present 

 instance the Feith is a well ; originally the name must have been applied to 

 the strip of coloured herbage which indicated the course of the spring issuing 

 from or feeding the well. 



Corbally, Corra Bhaile — " Bound Hill of the Homestead." Area, 431a. 



This is a townland name of fairly frequent occurrence throughout Ireland. 

 O'Donovan generally, if not universally, 3 explains it as " Odd Town," i.e. 

 Cor Bhaile, which I venture to designate incorrect. Joyce follows O'Donovan, 

 and I may appear guilty of temerity in differing from such eminent authority, 

 but I have always heard the name pronounced Corr a Bhaile. 



Corbally (D. S. Reference). 



S.D. Fleisc — "Wet Place"; a sub-div. of some hundred acres. There 

 is also a Flesk River in this barony, as well as one in Kerry and another in 

 Antrim. 



Glenkasack, Gleann na Sac— "Glenn of the Sacks"; presumably 



1 Ordnance Survey Field Books. 



- Field Books, Ordnance Survey. Mountjoy Barracks. 



• ! TVkl Books, Ordnance Survej . 



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