214 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



" The Weir Hole " ; in the Bride river. 



Glexaeousk. Gleann na Ruse. Meaning somewhat doubtful. The 



dictionaries have not the word Bitsc, which is also unknown in the colloquial 



Irish of the locality. O'Donovan, however, 1 renders the word — a marsh or 



fen. Canon Peter O'Leary, in whose parish the townland is, thinks Eiisc 



= Buadh Uisgue (i.e. Red Water). In older Irish ruse = a push, drive, rush 



(of water). The word ruse in the name Druinrusk, Co. Waterford, I have 2 — 



following O'Donovan* — rendered " fleeces." Kiisc occurs again in the name 



l; 08 parish of Tubrid, Co. Tipperary ; and in Roosca Cross, near Cloyne. 



. 1059 a. 



On II lyes'fi farm, towards de of the present extensive townland, 



and in a field called Pail -1 small pillar-stone, known as "The 



Dalian." In a neighbouring field, <m same farm, is a well to which a repu- 



ir sanctity in attaches. On this farm there are likewise 



three .-mall circular hoses or traces of them. 



S.DD. Po] •■'- VV. .. ii i.M.i : oear south-west angle of townland. 



O.M ; near north- _le. A cannon-ball, weighing 



7 11.-.. was found I enty years ago. 



:.]. No " rounds " are made tin-re now. 

 rnanimirish O.M.), Ban an [mris — " Field of the Battle," from a 

 Bkii-mish hei the Oromwellian and Irish forces in which the latter 



wei d. 



k Field" ; so called from a cluster of labourers' ■ 

 Pairc a Lingthe — "Field of tl - r ": from athletic contests of which 



I do not know the force ol the qualifying term in this 

 similar uai - I Uynagarbrach, parish Caherlag, supra.) 



Pai: iin— "0 Hogan' Id." 



Paircin .' - Fbiir— " Little Field of the Hayseed"; or, perhaps, P. a 



- It'll— " l-'l.-l ' .:." 



the (F -tune." As the stone has been, 



lonu lecture its character. 



••1 ttWell." A at not law-loving, band found 



the water hi I t" their illicit puipose. 



Faruak, I'earann— " A Farm." In place-name usage I find the term 

 -■rally applied to Church-land— a glebe on the tenanted 

 land of an abb On O'Brien's farm i- a ceall or early church site, close to 

 iairin an 'Atha. Area, in two divisions, 207a. 



1 i irdnanic Surrey Field i;»>ka. P la< B-Namei of Decies, p. 212. 



I I; kjUs aaalxjM-. ' '<■. Waterford. 



