28 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



stones, a well-known and much-frequented holy well, numerous lioses, and 

 some cilL or eeal, sites. The parish shares its name with the townland on 

 which the ancient church stands ; but whether it is the church which gets 

 its name from the townland or the townland from the church, there is no 

 evidence to show. Moreover we are in doubt as to the derivation of the 

 parish name. 



TOWXI.ANHs. 



Ai;['I:a. 'Aid Hath — " High Laos." There were six circular lioses— three 

 "i small and three <>i moderate size. The particular lios which gave its name 

 to the townland still stands upon, or close to, the coterminous boundary of 

 Carroll's and Scanlan'e farms. Area, 390 a. 



Anlia " (Lnq. Eli/.). 



fin Carroll's farm are two dallans, and there is a real/, nameless hut still 

 u>ed tor burial of unbaptized infant-, on Scanlan's. 



S.DD. Ban a Chuirn— " Field «i the Ham [or Mill-stream)." "Corn" 

 seems to be used here in tin- sense -i a mill-dam. 



Clais an Aifrinn — "The Mass Trench"; a natural depression used as a 

 for Sunday worship in tin- Penal days. 



Ballyaed, Baile 'Ard — ' E I Eomestead." Area, 207 a. 



There air two medium-sized lioses — one circular in outline, ami the other 

 ovaL 



s.l). Bothairin Nua— " New Little Road." 



Beil Leicin — ■" Little Flagstone River Mouth." 



1 i Dono\ in makes it Bealach Fhinu, which certainly is not what I heard. 

 Apparently here, as elsewhere O'Donovan based his interpretation solely on 

 i form. Are 



>.1>1>. Garraidhe Kuadh — "1 ito-Field"; a sub-div., some 00a. 



in area, 



CurracD an line — "Marsh of the Butter" ; a field in which is a well. 



Pairc na hhFothrach— " Field of the Ruins." 



Brttway, Breamhach "i Breach. M> ning somewhat uncertain, Canon 

 . instates it "wolJ I l Donovan makes it Breach Magh — "Wolf 



Field.'"- Tin' form"] h"in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas BUgge 



that O'Donov.m's rendering is correct. Windelc i M - S. R.I.A. 12. 1. 3.) reco 

 Brittas and Biniach as alternative forms. 



- l tion P. Nich. L291 1. " Brittway " (D.S.). 



lie- ruined church of Britway— perhaps the most interesting object of its 



1 Journal of Cork Archaeological .Society, vol. ii, p. 191. 

 Field B ^s of the < tadnanoe Burvey, Wountjoy Barrack*. 



