Poweu — Place-Names and Antiquities of 8.E. Cork. 10 



rather than field, stones is deduced from the faot that Hie natural surface 

 (heavy clay) is practically stoneless. 



S.D. Loch Feibil — Meaning unknown; perhaps "pebble pond"; the 

 name is now applied to a field. 



Ballynakilla, Baile na Oille— "The Church Homestead." Area, 509 a. 

 I failed, after minute investigation, to find traces or tradition of church. 



BaUynakill (B.S.D.). 



The following place-name rhyme — found in many places as well — was 

 quoted by a local Irish speaker. It really was originally applied to Bally- 

 cotton by the Irish poet, Pierce FitzGerald : — 



Baile na Cille, baile beag, briste, 

 Agus a thon le huisge, 

 Agus mna gan tuisgint ann. 



There were two lioses, but both are now levelled, and Mulcahy's house 

 stands on the site of one. 



S.DD. Sliabh Leid — Meaning unknown. 



Tobar a Chaipin — "Well with the Little Cap (of masonry)"; the well 

 has no cap now. 



Pairc na bFotharach — "Field of the (House) Ruins." 



Pairc na dTri gCuinne — " Three-cornered Field." 



Pairc na Claise — " Field of the Trench." 1 



Leaba na Bo Baine-"The White Cow's Bed." "The White Cow," in 

 this instance, is clearly a legendary animal. She appears — notwithstanding 

 the sobriquet of "white" — to be the fabulous (lias Ghamhuach or azure- 

 coloured heifer, whose yield of milk was so copious that she filled every vessel, 

 till a mischievous and irreverent woman brought a sieve. Compare Bothar 

 Bo Finue, &c, on Woodstock, par. Carrigtwohill. No doubt the original leaba 

 was a stone or depression, but the name is now extended to a sub-division, 

 mostly mountain and unreclaimed land. 



Ballyvatta, Baile Mhata — "Matthew's Homestead.'' Area, 575 \. 



S.DD. A number of field names — Pairc na Cruithneachta (The Wheat 

 Field), Loch Buidhe (Yellow Pond), Ath Doimhin (Deep Ford), Leacht 

 (Stone Pile), Moinfhear Mor (Big Meadow), Ath na Gainmhe (Sand ford). 

 Paircfn an Imris (Little Field of the Litigation), Garraidhe Dearg (The Led 

 Potato Field), Seana Bhuaile (Old Milking Place), &c. 



Clash, An Chlais — "The Trench." Area in two parts,76A: There are also 



'Names like this and the preceding are of so frequent occurrence that, except in 



special cases, they will not be recorded. 



