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The O.M. records three lioseson this towhland— scil., two large specimens 

 and one of lesser size. All these, however, have entirely disappeared, the 

 only traces remaining being the field-names, "Furl Field" and "Pairc a 

 Leasa," on McCarthy's and Twomcy's farms respectively. 



Rowgarron (Inq. Gar. I). 



S.DD. Pairc na nGearrfhiadh (or gCorrfhiadh) — " Field of the Hares (or 

 Stags)." 



"The Stand Field," in which races were once held. 



Cakrigtohill Parish. 



Judging from the great extent of its parish, Carrigtohill was probably a 

 " Mother Church." The parish contains no fewer than thirty-seven town- 

 lands, many of them, however, of less than average area. The region 

 embraced comprises about one-half, arable upland, and one-half, fertile lime- 

 stone plain. In Carrigtohill village are the remains of a large ruined church, 

 with a strong, scpiare tower attached, and atKilcurfin Glebe are the insignificant 

 ruins of a second and smaller church, while an early church site lias been 

 identified at Ballyregan. There are Holy Wells at Woodstock, Ballinbrithig, 

 and Terrysland. The castle of Barryscourt, near Carrigtohill village, is a 

 very fine specimen of a modified peeltower, which, with its courtyard and 

 outworks, is in a tolerable state of preservation. Windele, who was at Mass 

 in Carrigtwohill on Palm Sunday, 1833, describes the congregation as bringing 

 each one his own branch of palm, and holding it up in his hand, to be blessed. 

 The church then existing had, by the way, been designed by the well-known 

 Father Mat Horgan, while he was curate in Carrigtwohill. Over the doorway 

 was an Irish inscription : — " Do Dhia Fo Tharmuin Muire Naomhtha." 



Townlands. 



Annegrove, Baile na Speire. Meaning unknown. Speire, David Barry, of 

 Carrigtohill, informs me, would mean a lot of business involving worry or 

 vexation. I find the name spelled Ballinsperry in old documents. The 

 name Annegrove the place owes to a Lord Barry more, whose wife was 

 Anne Coughlan, of Ardogna, Co. Waterford. Area, 297a. 



On the townland are the unimportant remains of a church, Kilcurfin, which 

 stand within the ancient cemetery on brow of the range running east and west 

 through the barony. The west gable is practically entire, but so thickly and 

 completely covered with ivy that no window or other such feature is visible. 

 Besides the gable in question there stands a fragment — three yards long by 

 four yards high — of the north side wall, and another large fragment has but 



