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Pairc a liandi; meaning unknown. 



Toorgarriff, Tuar ( rarbh — " Rough Night Field." Area, 644 a. 

 S.DD. "Tower Hill" (O.M.) — This is probably a very incorrect rendering 

 of Teamhair, a hill. Indeed, the townland name may be Teamhair Garbh. 

 Seana Bhaile ; a field. See under Tinageragh above. 



Parish of Ballycurrany. 



The present parish is of very irregular outline, of less than average size, 

 and of scarcely average interest archaeologically. It derives its name (which 

 is at least seven centuries old) from the townland upon which the church 

 stood. The district embraced is hilly and somewhat off main routes — two 

 facts which are to advantage from our present point of view. Perhaps the 

 local names are correspondingly well preserved, and of interest above the 

 average. Close to south boundary of the parish, and on summit of a glen- 

 slope overlooking a stream, is the ancient parochial graveyard, within which 

 was the church. Of the church itself nothing remains ; its approximate 

 site is occupied by three Wilson family vaults. Appropriation of ancient 

 church interiors and such quondam sacred places was one of the petty 

 aggressions of the (Jromwellian and Williamite gentry. Appropriation was, 

 under the circumstances, quite bad enough ; but these parvenus went 

 further. They pulled down what remained of the old walls, and used the 

 materials to build themselves vaults, and, of course, in their day none of the 

 native stock dared say them nay. The Ordnance Surveyors state that the 

 foundations of the church were dug up in 1810. The Eoyal Visitation in 1615 

 found the church and chancel fallen even then. 



TOWNLANDS. 



Ballybrannagh, Baile na mBreatnach — " Walshes' Homestead." Area, 

 in two divisions, 314 A. 



There was one lios, now destroyed, on FitzGerald's farm. There are also 

 the remains of an ancient church, called Seana Teampuilin, standing within 

 a small enclosed cemetery. In middle of the field adjoining the churchyard 

 is a large circular lios in a. good state of preservation. 



S.DD. " The Sheepwalks " ; this is a 60-acre field. 



Carraig na gCon — " The Hounds' Rock " ; the name is applied to an 

 elevated field some four acres in area. 



Ath an Isil — " Ford of the Low-lying Place " ; on the boundary with 

 Condonstown. 



Seana Theampuilin — " Little Old Church " ; the ancient religious building 

 referred to above. It was evidently not a parish church, but either an 



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