Power — Place-Names and Antiquities of 8.E. Cork. 187 



Caherlag graveyard and church site are on the townland. The burial- 

 ground, which is overcrowded at the south side, 1 is but sparsely occupied at 

 the north. About centre of the enclosure is a standing grave-stone bearing 

 the following inscription in a kind of cursive script : — 



" T. R. 



Mich 1 Sinnic k 



45 years P.P., B. 



T.D., M.A., N.A. 



Died June the 29"' 1791. 



Aged 75 years." 



The letters N.A. stand for Notary Apostolic; B.T.D. may be the stone- 

 cutter's rendering of B.S.T., i.e., Bachelor of Sacred Theology. Father 

 Shinnick was, I think, the founder of a burse, or burses, in Louvain for the 

 education there of Irish students. 2 Vid. under Ballyhennick, supra. 



S.DD. Father Mathew's Tower (O.M.). A castellated building erected 

 by a local admirer of the Apostle of Temperance to commemorate the fruitful 

 labours of the devoted Capuchin. 



" Boglands " — A sub-den. of inconsiderable extent. 



Pairc a' Chlampair — " Field of the Contention." 



Cnocan na Gheimhlighe — " Little Hill of the Fettered (Beast)." 



Glebe (O.M.), on west side of the townland. 



Killacloyne, Cill na Cluana— " Church of the Sequestered Place." Area, 

 328 a. 



The church which gave the place its name was situated near the north 

 angle of the townland. Its exact site was found, with some difficulty, on 

 Fenton's farm, to west side of the main road — beside a stream in a rather boggy 

 situation at bottom of a shallow glen. Foundations of a building — pre- 

 sumably an early church of oratory type — are faintly traceable ; they measure 

 18 feet by 9 feet. Part of the townland of Killaclyone lies within the 

 neighbouring (Carrigtohill) parish, wbich see. 



1 The demand for accommodation on the south side <>f ancient cemeteries must 

 have struck all who give time to their study. Church symbolism furnishes the explana- 

 tion ; I take it to be this — the north was the region of the infidel ; the north jmrt i<>n of 

 the cemetery, at least the portion of the latter to the north of the church, was set apart 

 for interment of heretics and others not entitled to Christian sepulchre. Though its 

 symbolism has been long forgotten, the north side of the ancient graveyard is still 

 popularly avoided as much as possible. 



: There is a current popular belief in ill-luck following clerical money. Father 

 Shinnick's case might be quoted as an instance in proof. On the priest's death some 

 legacy came to his nephew, a close-fisted man. His wife got access to it and squandered 

 it on her lover. When her husband discovered the perfidy he cut her throat and then 

 his own. His coffin was Hung into the river, but as it would not sink, it was hurieU finally 

 in the wooded steep of Glanmire. 



