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Langka ; 1450 ; Laftar 1373. Irish, Latharna. Larne, Co. Antrim. 

 Eoso, 1373, 1384. South from jST.E. comer of Antrim, probably Eed Bay, 

 Cushendall, Co. Antrim. 



North Coast from East. 



BONAMARGY, mones, 1339 ; moneth, 1351, 1467, 1497, 1513 ; manoxi, 1367 ; 



munax, 1373; momer, 1384; monexi, 1426; momolag, 1544; momo 



arger, 1569 ; Bonamergh, 1590 ; momulus, 1693 ; Mouarg, 1609- 



Bonamargy, Co. Antrim. 

 DuNSEVERiCK, dunsobrin, 1327, 1339, 1385, 1497 ; dunsobrinin, 1360 ; 



cap dunsobri, 1367' ; . . . nsob, 1375 ; cauo ikibusubrin, 1373 ; 



cauo de donsobrin, 1384 ; donssebrin, 1426 ; dunsobri, 1559 ; donsobrin, 



1436, 1555 ; donsobry, 1513.- Irish, Dun Sobhairce. Dunseverick. 



Co. Antrim. 2 

 Rathlin ragri, 1339, 1367; abrini, 1384; ragrany, 1426; ragrini, 1497, 



1513; Eacklyn, 1589; Eaghlins, 1590. Irish, Eechrann,' Eathlin 



] sland, Antrim. 

 EOSNIE, 1384, and Amaibri 1436, between Dunseverick and Portrush ; 



perhaps the Bush and Port Ballintra, Co. Antrim. 

 PORTKUSH, Prosso, 1327, 1436; Portorosso, 1339; Porta rosa (or resa), 1351, 



1375, 1367, 1384; P. roso, 1373; P. rosoe, 1467; P°rosso, 1552; 



P. rossa, 1497; drosso, 1513; Portrushe, 1570, 1589, 1590. Portrush, 



Co. Antrim. 



Papers and Rolls, e.g. Olderflit, 1569, Irish map and reservation of Olderfleet Haven from the grant 

 to Angus McDonnell, May, 1586 (See Cal. S.P.I, for that year, pp. 58, 69, 125). 



' Cauo hon sobrin, 1490. 



^Sobhairche was an early monarch (circa B.C. 1500), says legend; but does the sobarche, or 

 St. John's wort, grow near the fort? we have Duntraneeu and Duneenapisha. Long identified 

 wrongly with Carrickfergus ; this error is revived without correction in the new edition of 

 MacSkiuiin's " History of Carrickfergus." Some recent scholars have identified it with the Doon 

 of Murlough east from Bonamargy ; but the early maps place it either to the west of Bonamargy 

 or (the same result) to the south-west of Eathlin; while Baptist Boazio, in a map dedicated to 

 Queen Elizabeth soon after 1588, shows "Donsereg" between Cave Head and Whit Bay (to the 

 east), and Dunluse (to the west), i.e. far west from "mo bonamerghe." I find no corroboration 

 for the most recent "identification" anywhere. This confirms O'Donovan's identification with 

 Dunseverick. 



3 Ptolemy's Rikina. Irish, Eachra (Eachran), Rochrinne, corruptly Eaghery. Lambay 

 originally bore the same name, which only survives on the opposite mainland at Portraue 

 (Portrechrainn) ; it was Eachra in East Bregia; (see also Adamnan, [Rechru), and Irish Neunius, 

 p. 127). The harbour was still Portrahern in 1308 (Dr. Joyce, " Irish iSfames," ser. 1, part 2, map 1), 

 Strange to say, neither appeared in the Portolans. 



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