Powur — Place- Names and Antiquities ofS.E. fori-. 15 



Meenane, Minean — This is a mountain name of fairly frequent occurn ai i 



and signifies, according to O'Donovan,' ;i sina.ll ^rcni pate I a mountain. 



Area, 559 a. There was a lios, not noted on the O.M., in a Held on Towhill's 

 farm. 



S.DD. " Watergrasshill " (CM.). Cnocan na Biolaraighe— (" Little Hill 

 of the Water Cress "). Strictly speaking Biolarach is the stream which flows 

 through the watercress, or in which the latter grows. 1 1 is not necessary to 

 remind the reader how this place derives its fame from the former residence 

 here of one who literally had greatness thrust upon him — Father Daniel Prout, 



" Of Watergrasshill, the renowned P.P." 



The good priest died in 1830, and is buried at Ballinaltig, a couple of miles 

 from the village for ever associated with his memory. A stream, which rises 

 in Bishop's Island, ran down the whole length of the village street, and in 

 the old mail-coach days there was a pool for watering the horses. Water- 

 cress nourished in the stream and catchment pool in question, and hence the 

 name. Immediately previous to the famine, there were one hundred and 

 thirty inhabited houses in Watergrasshill, and a population of some five 

 hundred and twenty. 



Bothairin Bhlaic — " Little Road of the Peaty-surfaced Place." The 

 word Blac, occurring occasionally in mountain-names, is really the English 

 " black," which is used as a noun to designate the dark soil of reclaimed 

 mountain land. 



Beal a Chreathaigh — (" River Mouth of the Hurdle Bridge ") ; a sub-div. 

 Compare the Latin, crates. 



" Blackstone Bridge " ; this place was a Mass-station in the Penal times. 



Ladhar na nGleann — " Fork of the (two) Glens " ; another sub-div. 



Pairc a Leasa — "The Lios Field"; in which was the obliterated rath 

 already referred to. : 



Moneygokm, Muhie Ghorm — " Dark Green Shrubbery." Area, 652 a. 

 The place is now, and perhaps always was, better known as Tooreen (Tuairin) 

 — "Little Night-Field for Cattle." Moin a Chumair ("Bog of the River 

 Confluence "), and Na Cumaracha (" The Hill and Valley-abounding Place " . 

 seem to have been old synomyms ; for instance, in the Surveyors' Sketch 

 Map the place appears as Mouacummer. At the date of the Ordnance Survey 

 the townlaud constituted a single farm. 



1 U.S. Field Books, passim. 



-The name "Lios Field'' is of extremely frequent occurrence, like " liig Field," 

 "House Field," and "Road Field.'' It will not therefore be recorded for the future, 



except in special cases. 



