Power — Place-Names and Antiquities of S.E. Cork. 1913 



Ballyregaun (Inq. lac. I). 



S.DD. Ciiilcach Cam — " Crooked Corner Place." Cirileach I take to be 

 a derivative from ciiil; it is applied, in the present instance, to a hollow or 

 dip in the road. 



Ceann a' Bhothairin — " Little Eoad Head." 



Seana Bhothar— "Old Road "; on or near the coterminous boundary with 

 Ballinbrittig. The place was formerly ghost-haunted. My informant, how- 

 ever, never saw anything more fearsome than a cat seated at midnight on the 

 summit of a gate pier ! 



Ceall ; an early church site on Mrs. Boche's farm, and near the south-west 

 angle of the townland. Here a low, circular fence on top of the glen slope 

 encloses a space, half an acre, or so, in area. 



"The Gary Road." Probably the word isGaortha — a wooded and stream- 

 watered place. 



Cnoc a' Droma— " Hill of the Ridge " ; a field. 



Ballykichard, Baile Risteaird — "Richard's Homestead." Area, in two 

 divisions, 392 a. 



There is one small circular lios still standing on Kelleher's farm, and 

 another, on Lawton's, has been levelled. 



S.DD. " Schrathans." A subdenomination of small extent. Scraithe&n 

 means coarse land, and the word is of fairly frequent occurrence in place- 

 names. Joyce derives it from scraith, a green sward, or a scraw or coarse sod 

 dried for burning. With this derivation Canon Lyons' disagrees. Joyce, 

 however, though — aliquando dormitat — is much more reliable and saner in 

 his derivations than the worthy canon. 



" The Racecourse " ; a field. 



Barryscourt, Cuirt a Bharraigh— Idem ; from the great castle of the 

 Barrys still surviving in a comparatively good state of preservation. 

 According to Michal Deasy, an older name for at least a portion of the 

 townland was Cnoc a Loiscthe — "Hill of the Burning" (i.e. Burned Hill). 

 Area, 699 a. 



Ballynwoorigo (Inq. Car. I). 



On the townland was one large lios which has been demolished recently. 

 The chief surviving object of antiquarian interest is, of course, Barryscourt 

 Castle. It stands now a considerable way Erom the river bank, but formerly 

 the tide flowed right up to the machicolated walls, ami even sumo perches 

 beyond to the east. There were extensive artificial ponds for ornament and 



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