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great boulder, which can be seen there still — in the stream-bed at bottom of 

 the glen — to confirm the story, and confound the sceptic. 1 



S.D. Seana Bhaile— " Old Village " ; the name is applied to a field. 



Pairc na bhFeara-chat — " Field of the Wild (or Enchanted) Oats." 



Gortnacrue. Gort a Chrti — " Field of the Hut." O'Donovan makes it 

 " Field of the Blood." Area, 454 acres. " Gortcrue " (D. S. Map). 



Killeendooling. Cillin Dubhlainn— " Dowling's Little Ohurch." Area, 

 195 a. All my efforts failed to discover trace or tradition of the early 

 church-site, and John Moore, an old resident, aged eighty years, says he 

 has been impairing for the name-giving ceal or cilleen all his life, but has 

 not found it. There is one large lios, partly levelled, on Maurice Ring's 

 farm (Pairc a Leasa). 



S.DD. Pairc na Coille— " Field of the Wood." 



Cnoicin Gearr — " Little Shortened Hill." 



Clos Mearach — " Finger-formed Olose." 



Walshtown. Baile an Bhailise — " Wallis's (or Walsh's) Homestead." 

 The Co. Waterford Walshes also Gaelicised this name— Bhailis, while the 

 Kilkenny, &c, families of the name make it Breathuach. Area, 52 a. 



There are really four townlands of the name in the barony. These all 

 adjoin, and three of them (in the parish of Templenacarriga) were doubtless 

 once united. The present small division, lying within a different — though 

 adjacent —parish, can hardly ever have formed member of a union with the 

 others. On Walshtown (whether on the present portion or on the other, I 

 cannot say) was a cistvaen or dolmen composed of nine large stones support- 

 ing a capstone. The monument was demolished by one Pat Barry, who 

 survived his act of vandalism only three months. 2 



S.D. " The Mears " ; a rather extensive sub-division, embracing three or 

 four large fields. 



Parish of Britway. 



This parish, which lies along the east boundary of the Barony, is of about 

 average size, and of hilly (almost mountainous) character. Its place-names, 

 also, are of about average interest and number. There are many antiquities, 

 including a very interesting Hiberno-Komanesque church, several pillar- 



1 Another version of the legend makes the brother a saint— Colman of Cloyne, to wit — 

 and the sister, another saint, who for her humility was able, unscathed, to carry burning 

 coals in her apron. Ono evil day, however, she took complacency in sight of her new 

 boots; thenceforth sho could carry the fire no longer. The apron losi its virtue, and 

 became ignited ; in consequence the lire was lost, and Colman, lor whom the sister acted 

 as cook and oecouimus, was left dinnerless. For her sin of vanity and failure in domestic 

 duty, the woman was changed into a stone, &c. 



- VVindele MSS., 12. I. 3. 



