Westropp — Early Italian Majjs of Ireland from lSOO—1600. 415 



" T. S. SAiiA ZrsQUi," 1544. Apparently St. Senan's Isle or Iniscatha; but 

 on 1367 and 1544 maps it seems a half obliterated " Limeriqui," a 

 misplaced " Limerick,"' and on the 1450 map is represented by a 

 duplicate " lamariiq." 



Ldiepjck, lavmerich, 1-339, 1351, 1375 : lamereeht, 1367 ; Ijmerich, 1385 ; 

 lanera, 1426 ; lemeri, 1436 ; limerish, 1448 ; lamarich, 1450, 1513 ; 

 americh, 1497; lomeri, 1500; lamerie,i 1500,1552; laneray, 1516; lamariq, 

 1544; lamerl, 1552 ; lambrick, 1570; lamarqui, 1593. Limerick city. 



C'APSTUis'BREA, 1339 ; cauo strimbla, 1367 ; strambr, 1373 ; c. stronbere, 1376 ; 

 c. stronber, 1426 ; c. astronbre, c. astrombre, and c. astronbre, 1497, 

 1513 ; casliumbros, 1448 ; astrobre, 1552. Perhaps carocorbere, 

 Cahercarbree- or Cahercarbery, Kerry Head. 



Ardla., 1568, probably Ardart, 1590 H and Elizabethan maps. Ardfert, 

 Kerry. 



Beazill, " Insula de moutoniis sive de brazill," 1325 ; insula de brazil, 1339 ; 

 insule de brazil, 1351 ; " isola de motonus sive de bracill,"' and a second 

 "ysula de bracir" farther south, 1367; y. a. de brazil, 1375; y. a da 

 bragill, 1426 ; isola de brasill, 1445 : y a de berzil, 1436 ; brazill, 1450 ; 

 " .L del berzil, son dite fortunato," 1452 ; montoni, 1497 ; brazil, 1513 ; 

 brasil, 1529 ; y^ de brazill montonu, 1552 ; ilia de brazill (double island), 

 1558 ; not on the British maps temp. Elizabeth. The mythical isle of 

 Brasil, or, in modern books only, Hy Brazil.* 



MouisT Bkaxdon, Mons Sanbrandani, 1300, 1445, 1513 ; Lamonta bna de Sci 

 brandan, 1373 ;^ San brandan, 1339; San brandani, 1351; mont. see. 

 branda, 1367, 1384; San brandon, Mont S. branda, 1375; monte 

 S-^" brandan, 1373, 1384; S-^" brandag, 1426; S. brrodan, 1497 ; San 

 branda, 1552; S. berondon, 1497 ; S. branda, 1558. Mount Brandon, 

 Kerry.^ 



St. Majrt's Head, e. de S. Maria, 1593 ; near dingles. Probably Smerwick, ' 

 the absurd ■' St. Mary's wick," Kerry. 



' The map doubles several of the names in different handwriting to read from either side. 



2 So before 1750, Dr. C. Smith's "Kerry." 



^ This has been also read '■ y soli de mayotas sen de Bracis " (Birachi), " n cotus sur de Braeis " 

 (Jomard;. Konrad Kretschmer failed to decipher it (Die Entdekung Amerikas, 1S9?). 



* Several foreign and British antiquaries derive the name from the red wood brazil. Vhile my 

 paper on BrasQ «as in the press, I found an overlooked note that ' brasill wood ' was taxed in a grant 

 of murage rates to Dublin, 1312. " De qualibet centena de brasile venali." (Patent EoU, v Ed. II, 

 part 2, m. 7). 



' So in the 1373 Pizigano map in Ongania viii. 



6 " Brendanicis montibus," Topog. Hib., Giraldus Cambrensis, cap. 2. 



' The Elizabethan maps and papers derived Smerwick fi'om "St. Mary'a wick." It is really 

 Norse " Snijor " butter or rich pasture ; vik, creek — like Smor tue, Smor berg, and Smor, and Smor 

 klepp in Norway; Smenin (Smor vin), Smer meadow, and Smerweli Park in Shetland, &c. (" In 

 Northern Mists," Nansen, trans., A. G. Chater, 1911, vol. i, p. 374, chapter ix.) 



