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ancient Celtic foundation or a votive chapel of post-invasion times. The 

 foundations of the building arc fairly traceable, and show the church to have 

 been some forty-eight feet by twenty-one feet internally. 



Pairc na Claise " — " Field of the Trench " ; a field-name of rather frequent 

 occurrence. 



Paircin na t luinge— " The Field of the Swingletree." 1 am not quite sure 

 of this name; my informant had but little Irish. 



" Tin- Mollies." The name is applied to a stream, and is supposed to be 

 derived from two or three old women who lived close together on its hank. 



Ballycbanny, Baile [Ji Caranaigh— " O'Crane's Bomestead." O'Donovan 

 make-; it B. Crannach, " Tree-surrounded Homestead," bul [give the name 

 as 1 heard it. Area, in two division 



B Ij ranich (Tax. 1291 ; Balyncrany (Inq. Eliz.) ; Ballycarany 

 (Visit. lOle . 



SJDD. "The Blacks" ; a 6eld. 

 Miss Path Field"; a tield through which leads a path used as a 

 " short cut " "ii Sund 



An Chill; a tield which adjoins t! ■..ml. 



Well"; a holy well at foot of the glen neai the graveyard. The 

 well, which is held iii much reverence locally by a spring filtering 



from the bill behind. It is at pn ed with a roof of mason-work, 



and in front and around i d some rudely carved structures of stone, 



the pious work of an aged man named John Barry. Votive rags, &c, adorn 

 in ancient thorn \ . the well, ami "rounds" are >tiil made on 



I ist F'th. T in fact, "ii the patronal day is so great that it 



becomes "a pattern." The water is popularly believed to be specially efficacious 

 in cure of ague an 



a Limit — " Cat Hole " : in Stream, on wist, side of townland, wliere a 

 : by subscription in 1810. 



I'.ali.yn.v .-lasiiv, Boile na ' laise— II mesteadof the Trench "; doubtless 

 from the great natural trench or glen (it has no bog or stream al base) which 

 runs north-east and south-west through the townland. Area, 406a. There 

 are two lioses. 



Ballinaclashi- (1 1 and [nq. Eliz. . 



S.DD.— "Glenview" (OM. . 



"Gwynne's Well" 



Ceathramha — ' Burnt Quarter " ; a sub-division, of some forty- 



five ai 



Ba: ii, Bade na gCloch — " Bomestead of the Standing Stones" ; 



none of theeponj liars survive. That the name is derived from pillar, 



