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Garadise, or Goradise, Lake lies within the parish of Drumreilly, or, to use 

 phonetic spelling, Drumriley. On the Down Siuvey map of Carrigallen 

 Barony this name appears as Drumreally.' In ecclesiastical records of the 

 fifteenth century the parish was styled Drumerbelaid,- an obvious corruption 

 of the Irish compound Druivi-air-hhelaigh, meaning " the ridge of the eastern 

 road." The seventeenth-century antecedent of Drumreilly having been 

 Drumreally, it is not unreasonable to suppose that (roradise may have 

 emerged, in like manner, from Gorad-(d)eas. Thus would " Garadice," the 

 name which is now exclusively used, be a disguised form of Guthard-dheas, 

 and as such mean simply " southern Guthard." 



Local usage supplies analogies in abundance for this inference. The 

 district of Magh Angaidhe, to which I have already referred, bounds Lake 

 Goradise on the Newtowngore side. In O'Donovan's time this region was 

 known to its inhabitants as " The Moy."^ Ua-Eaghallaigh, the family name 

 of East Breifni's chieftains, was, and is, pronounced O'Eeilly. The county 

 name Mayo, representing Magli-Eo, or Magh-Eo na Saxan* is sounded 

 throughout Leitrim as Moy-6, or My-o. To anybody acquainted with the 

 speech-forms now prevalent in Breifni it will at once be evident that, if the 

 name Guthard-dheas has escaped extinction, it could have survived only as 

 Gorad-doise (or dise).^ But the question is not solely dependent on linguistic 

 reasoning. Though the Down surveyors did not chart Lake Goradise, at the 

 southern side of the vacant space corresponding to it on their maps they 

 entered " Garteoise " ;" and the position in which they marked this word 

 indicates that, in Betty's time, the lake spread farther than it now does to 

 the south-east. 



The name Guthard-dheas implies that at one time the lake was mated to 

 a Guthard-thuaid or Goradoo. The physical geography of the locality shows 

 clearly that the junction of these two Guthard lakes was close to the moat 

 of Tuam Seanchaidh, or Toomonaghan, a little behind the point where the 

 Woodford Canal now enters Ballymagauran Lake. Guathard-thuaid, or 

 North Guthard, thus corresponded to the three continuous water basins at 

 present differentiated as Ballymagauran, Derrycasson, and Coologe lakes; but 

 proofs could easily be adduced to demonstrate that its area in early times was 



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2"De Annat. Hib.," p. 239; also "Droiraergelaid," at p. 238. Comp. "Seven 

 Bishops of Druim-aii'bhealaigh "("Martyr, of Donegal," p. 17). 



2 See "Four Masters," a.d. 1424, note (q). 

 *0p. cit, A.D. 1476. 



^Compare also Rathwire = Rath Guaire, Carrickmines = Carraicnieadhoii, etc. 

 (Hogan's "Onom. Goed.") 

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