222 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Ballyxackusha, Baile na Croise — " Homestead of (at) the Cross-roads." 

 Area, 380 a. 

 Ballyncrussy in Magna Insula in Bar. de Barrymore (I114. Gul. et Mariae). 



There was "tic lies upon Sweeney's Earm, but it exists no longer. The old 

 chapel of the parish — formerly there was only one— stood also on this town- 

 land, where now is Kirby's farm-house. 



S.D1). Baile Iochtarach — " Low-lying Homestead"; a subdivision con- 

 taining about forty-seven ai 



13 irry Hill (O.M.), another subdivision. The Irish name is l>;i Fhiehead 

 Umaire — " Forty Ridges." The " Berry" of the ollicial name may be derived 

 from tin' '( ) Bn-vsail Bin-ire, whose home was here. 



An Sconnsa — " Drain (or moat )." The name is applied to a stream which 



- in Ballyleary bog and flows through the present townland towards 

 Cuskinny Bay. into which it finally empties itself. 



Mointeau a Rinuce—-" Little Bog of the Dancing." According to Mr. 



I _ .- 1 > I 1 1 1 .11 there formerly Btood a tumulus here, upon the ilatlencd 

 top of which dancers disported themselves. 1 



Ballyvoloon, Baile I'i Mhaoileoin — "O'Mol i's Homestead." Mr. 



l;. A. Fol - Baile Bhaluin, from Baldwyn Eodnett. Area, 265 a. 



lyvellane p.S. R 



B.DD Coibh— enl Queenstown which got its modern, 



and now better known, name on t! n«of Queen Victoi ia's visit thereto 



in 1 



"Thick Knock." This is a sub-division, more commonly known as Castle 

 Oliver. The Brat name is the local rendering of the [risb, Cnoc Ramhar. 



LI Garbhain— Si Q rbhan's Church." The primitive church-site lay 

 within what is n • u. Kilgarvan was, at one time, another name 



for the parish, or for part of it. 



Belvelly, Beal a Bhealaigh — "Mouth of the Roadway." Here was 



nly ford by which access could he hail to tie- island from 



the mainland. 0"D 1 in gives Beal 1 Bhile, which is certainly incorrect. 



illy (Inq. Car. I). 



On tie- townland is a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century castle of the 



II idnetts in if preservation. This guarded tie- only practicable 

 passage into the island, and tb bridge, erected by public subscription 

 in 1807, marl f the ancient ford. Close to the castle is a Martello 

 Tower erected in 1816, with four others, for defence of Cork Harbour, at a 

 total cost of £3,500. On this townland there is also, near the south-east 



1 Cork Archaeological Journal, vol. iii (1892), p. 35. 



