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because, owing to want of roads, loads had to be carried in sacks slung 

 across horses' backs. Area, 485 a., largely mountain. 

 S.DD. An Beidh— ■ The Mountain Plain " ; a field 

 " The Dummy Field " : a large semi-reclaimed enclosure of perhaps forty 

 acres., which is said to have been " graffed," many years ago, by two or three 

 deaf mu: 



Glexvilix Gleann a Phreachain — ' : Glen of the Crow " : originally, 

 according to one authority, the name was Gleann na bhFraochan (" Valley 

 of the Whortle-berries "». Area. 941 a. 



Biolaraeh (The Biolara.:. — "The Watercress-abounding 

 - the same as the Irish name rgrasshill ; i". 



applied in the present instance to a well. 



Jbog W .a superior kind of hand turf made there, 



and said to resemble sea-coal iii 



Cumar na Saga: — . er Confluence": perhaps because 



the priee ence was near by, or because the confluence marked the 



meeting-place of coterminous parishes, or again, perhaps because some pr 

 were drowned in the rivei 



Gleann Ban— V, n ." 



Cai- . • — e name is now applied to a stream, but 



originally it d ■:■ ■ _ la rock which overlooks, or overhangs, the river. 



E. Kinahan'e demesne. Here •:•:• stood a 

 dallan " as large as the Bally". -jcinien." Throughout the Barony the 



te numerous " Stone Fields " and Paircs-na-Cloiche 

 P. na-g' e really pillar-stones. Alas, that so many of them have 



disappeared ! 



Bun a Bhaile and Barr a Bhail: — Village End" and "Village ] 

 respectively. 



a river pool in which, presumably, the strolling man 

 of solder met his untimely 



"The 1 is the genitive case of Inis, an island, 



and the word is commonly applied to a river-holm or a low-lying meadow 

 a stream. 



Glashanabrack .. :ia luBreac — " Trout Stream," 



on the east boundar. .ownland The common name now i- • Trout- 



brook," in which an effort 13 made to preserve both the sound and the sense 

 of the origii. 



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