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XI. 



PLACE-NAMES AND ANTIQUITIES OF S.E. COUNTY COEK— 

 BAEONY OF BAEEYMOEE. 



Part III. 



By EEV. PEOFESSOE PATEICK POWEE. 



[Read April 12, 1920. Published Febrcaey 5, 1923.] 



Owing to the present expense of printing, &c., it has been necessary to 

 reduce considerably the matter originally embodied in the present paper. 

 Dunbullog, for instance, though the largest and, from our present point of 

 view, most interesting parish in the barony, is entirely omitted. Dunbullog, 

 however, does not form portion of the historical Barrymore ; traditionally and 

 ethnologically it is part of Muskerry, from which, for purposes of assessment 

 and civil administration, it has been cut off within the last hundred years. 



Parish of Dungourney. 



The parish name, which is not of ecclesiastical origin, signifies Guairne's 

 Fort. Almost certainly the dun site was on the partly isolated rock, sub- 

 sequently occupied by a castle. This is on Castlequarter, where the later 

 stronghold of the Barrys was strategically pitched upon the summit of a 

 rock, now partly cut away by the public road. Neither dun nor castle has 

 left any appreciable remains. As regards its place-names and antiquities, 

 the parish is well up to the average in interest. Lioses and dallans are 

 numerous ; there are a few holy wells, the site of an ancient castle, and at 

 least one cillin site. 



Eight townlands of the parish lie within the neighbouring Barony of 

 Imokilly, under which they will be found treated. 



The ancient church has left no remains ; it stood, no doubt, on site of 

 the present Protestant church, in the si^all, uninteresting cemetery which 

 surrounds the latter. Some ruins of the church survived in 1774 (Brady, 

 " Eecords of Cork, Cloyne, and Eoss," under Dungourney). 



