186 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Paeish of Mogeesha (Part of). 



Seven-eighths of the parish lie within the present barony ; the remainder 

 belongs to Iniokilly. Included in the parish area are the small islands or 

 peninsulas, known, respectively, as Brown and Brick Islands, on which are 

 prehistoric remains of great importance. The other antiquities of the parish 

 are of the usual character — site of the ancient church, remains of a castle, 

 some lioses, and a few pillar-stones. The name Mogeesha (Magh Gaoise) is 

 evidently territorial ; it is not taken from the townland on which stood the 

 ancient church. 



TOWNLANDS, 



Ballintubkid, Baile an Tiobraid — " Village of the Well." The name is 

 derived from a well of singular character, which lies in a field reached by a 

 laneway towards north side of the townland. The well, which has no proper 

 name other than " An Tobar," is at bottom of a pit about 30 feet deep, and 

 descent is by a series of thirty-one stone steps down a sloping gallery lined 

 overhead with great flags. The to^d ensemble rather suggests one of the 

 sloping passages within the Great Pyramid. To illuminate the depths there 

 are two light shafts. The well may be of considerable antiquity ; at any rate, 

 the place was " Balliutubrid " in the reign of Elizabeth as to-day. On 

 John Collins' farm is a lios, small and circular, with rampart 5 feet high, 

 bisected by a road. Area, in two divs., 758 a. 



Balynetuberidroyhtrighe — List of villages burned by Tyrone, 1599. 



S.DD. Brown Island (O.M.), an islet or promontory, on which is a small 

 prehistoric shell-mound. See under Eossmore below. 



Poll a' Ghabhair — " The Goats' Cave," a natural cavern within an artificial 

 enclosure. 



Poll Buidhe, " Yellow Hole," a pond. 



BALLYANNAix', Baile Ui Anain — " O'Hannon's Homestead." 



On this is the site of the parish church and graveyard. There are absolutely 

 no remains of either, and nothing but the name to indicate their former 

 place. Its proximity to the mansion of the Brodericks led to demolition of 

 the ruin, and, as the funerals of the poor country people were deemed a 

 nuisance by the noble owners, the burial-ground was closed up and tilled. The 

 Tudor mansion is now, in its turn, a ruin, its tall chimneys and great broken 

 windows standing sentinels over erstwhile gardens and pleasure-grounds. 

 From the ornamental gardens here were, I believe, transferred tlie statues and 

 fountains which Milliken has immortalized in " The Groves of Blarney." 



