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trovi, while Mr. P. M'Sweeney suggests Caladh-tirm. On either supposition 

 the stream would derive its name from the river-meadow. 

 Tobar-Nat— " Nat's Well." 

 An Scairt— " The Thicket," a field. 

 Barr a Bhaile — "Tillage Summit," another field. 

 Cohkin, Cam— "Sepulchral Stone-Pile." Area, 714 a. 

 The name-giving earn, now unfortunately ruined, is itself Carn- 

 Tighearnaigh. 1 Tighearnaeh may have been the great man whom the monu- 

 ment was intended to commemorate. Alas, nothing of him, beyond his bare 

 name, survives. Perhaps the assertion is too sweeping; within the tumulus 

 were found, in 1833, two fine burial urns of Bronze-Age character. One of 

 these was broken, and the other passed into the hands of the Rev. Joshua 

 Brown Ryder. The ultimate fate >>f the surviving vessel I do not know; but, 



fortunately, a g 1 drawing, or rather an engraving, of it survives. It was 



5j inches high, by '■'< inches in diameter at base and .v, 1 inches at mouth, and 

 wa< furnished with a conical cover. The cairn, before its destruction, is 

 i Bomewl _ il.ir in outline, 10 paces in circumference at 



ent, and 11 paces in circumference al the top, where it 

 was crowned by a stone pillar, 8 feet high.' Oroker adds that, surrounding 

 the cairn at a short distance, there was a circle of cyclopean stones. 



Local folk-lore connecls our cam with the prince (in this case, llobeard-a'- 

 Chairn) for whom deatb by drowning was foretold. The anxious father, to 

 remove all danger, proximate and remote, of the prophesied end, had the 

 child removed for nursing t" the summit of this wild and waterless peak, 

 where, at tin- height "i 727 feet, a residence was built for him, lint futile all 

 .11. u edict of fate; the child met the end decreed in a 



basin of water! Croker has embodied the story, with yet another tale of 

 irna, in his "Fair) I she South of Ireland." On Gorrin 



townland are likewise two, more or less holy, wells; also the sites of two 

 s— one each on Coghlan's and .May's farms. 



s.l>I>. I endowny, (O.M.), Tobar Kiogh an Domhnaigh— " The 



King of Sunday's i Well," i.e., well at which devotions were 

 D Sundays. This is on Coghlan's farm, and " rounds " are still 

 occasionally made. 



raomh— "The Saints' Well "; notwithstanding its name, the 

 sacred character of this well is somewhat doubtful; at any rate, the well is 

 i emphatically " holy " as its sister spring, just described. 



1 Cam Tigernaich in territory of Fear Muighe Feine (O'Clery's Ms. Life of St. 

 Finn barr). 



- Windele usa., 12, I. 11, R.I. A. 



