Power — Place-Names and Antiquities oj 8.12. Cork. 209 



I. U.S. MAMA. 

 ANO. DNI. 1614. 

 RICAEDUS [B] A 

 DEMO .... DOX. 



The initial letter of the surname is doubtful. 



S.DD. 



Toll Buidhe — "Yellow Hole'': a field, close to the chapel, so called from 

 a pit which yielded a species of mail or yellow earth. 



" The Warrens." 



An Carraigin — " The Little Eoek "; a field. 



" The Pedlar's Eock "; this is a cliff overhanging the river ; from it a 

 wandering chapman fell into the water, and was drowned. 



Poll a Tairbh — 'The Bull's Pool"; a deep hole in the river; perhaps a 

 bull was drowned here. 



Foillfn Bhriain — " Brian's Little Pool "; another river hole. 



Pairc na Cloiche — "Field of the Stone"; the stone is the dallan alluded 

 to above. 



Pairc a Ghaid — "Field of the "Withe"; possibly from an execution by 

 hanging ; for gad is sometimes used to signify a halter. The present field 

 has an uncanny reputation. Jack-o-the-Lantern, or some allied sprite, made 

 the place a scene of his nocturnal pranks; see under Gortagousta, par. 

 Carrigtohill, antea. 



Pairc a Cliamhain-Isteach — "The Son-in-Law's Field." Cliamhain^Isteaeh 

 is a son-in-law who comes to live in his wife's house; cliamhain is a son-in- 

 law simply. 



Ballyhamsiierry, Baile a Hampshire — " Hampshire's Homestead." The 

 family name, Hampshire, is not now known locally ; but in 1366 one Thomas 

 Hanser 1 was a tenant of church lands in this locality. Area, 383 A. 



Ballyhamshier (D.S.E.). 



On the townland, in a field by the roadside (Moore's farm), is a pillar- 

 stone, of Castlelyons type, measuring 6 feet by 5 feet by 2 feet; the pillar is 

 of limestone, and on its south face are some natural markings, suggesting the 

 imprint of four gigantic finger-tips, and indeed believed locally to he such — 

 proof conclusive that the stone was once a giant's plaything! 



S.DD. Pairc a Dallain — "Field of the Pillar-stone": this is the field on 

 which stands the monument just described. 



1 Rotulus Pipae Clonensis (Caultield), p. 30. Probably Hanser in the Pipe Roll is a 

 mistake for Hamsir (Hampshire). 



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