224 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Lying flat in the north-west corner of the ruined church is an inscribed 



slab which covers the mortal remains of Bev. Charles Wolfe, author of the 



immortal Elegy on the burial of Sir John Moore. 



Donegal, Dun na nGall — "Fortress of the Foreigner's." 



The "foreigners" were almost certainly Northmen (i.e. Norwegians). 



Cf. Donegal Co. ; Donegal, parish, Inishlounaght, Co. Tipperary ; and Donegal 



on the Hen Paver, Co. Cork. Area, 127 a. 



DownygaU < Inq. lac. I>. 



S.DD. 'Aid a Bhothair— " Top of the Eoad." 



Bun a Bhothair — " Bottom of the Eoad." 

 it, Foidthe, probably — "Warm Soil." See under Carrigtwohill 

 pan- A 044 .v. 



■NisKV, Lioa an Uisge — "Water Lios." Area, 94 a. 



This is a Dame of fairly frequent occurrence. A " water-lios " was 



apparently a lios, the mcentric trenches, of which could be filled 



witli water, somewhat after the manner of a mediaeval moat. At the present 



time there is no wab - by which the trench could be flooded, 



though the I i "' irs state, or insinuate, that there was a well 



within the enclosure. At .i highei level, however, twenty or thirty perches 



to the north, there is a spring which would yield a sufficient water-supply. 



jiving lios is on Buckley's farm; it is of small size, half an 



acre -r so in area with a circular rampart, about live feet in height. On 



U hy's farm t: - a second lios, now demolished, except a 



small arc of what was the B6C0nd .In both cases the field ill 



which the called I 'aire a' Leasa. 



Ma: - Chuirt — '* Old (Manor) Court." Area,:320A. 



Ould Court* (Inq. Car. [). 

 Old Court v. ■• of the Bonaynes. Philip Ronayne, who lived 



here 3 ., j, popularly believed to have practised 



. :c.' 



S.DD. Poinnte an Duna— "The Port Point." John Liegarty, a remark- 

 ably intelligent nati. locality, and an Irish speaker, states that the 

 name-giving Dun was the conical hill immediately to the west, or north-west, 



M 11 - . i . ■■ hill in rpaestion is of purely natural formation; 



1 "The ' t ' in Loite (Lota) and in Foite (Fota) is aspirated in books, but pronounced 

 here according to our Munater usage, just as we pronounce the ' th ' in cruth and the first 

 ' d' in vidheadh." Canon Lyons in Cork Archaeol. Journal, vol. iii, \>. • 



' .'Is." 



