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In an extraordinary autobiography, " TheLife of John Carteret Pilkington," 

 published in London, 1761, we get a curious and very intimate peep at social 

 life in Ballyannon nearly two hundred years ago. Area, 363 A. 

 S.DD. Ce Mor — " Great Quay," a sub-div. of some 40 acres, &c. 



The Devil's Elbow, a bend in the strand. 



Broderick's Stone, a rock in a wood. 



The Relig. — The church and graveyard site —on David Toomey's. 



" The Forge Field," one of those eerie places where people are led astray at 

 night by some supernatural agency, &c. 



Ballyvodock, Baile Bhodaigh — Apparently Bodoch, a churl, but I 

 imagine Bodach is a personal name — Hodnett. 



Ballyvodig (D.S. Eef.). 



On the townland are the very scant remains (only a small shapeless mass 

 of masonry) of an ancient castle, and (on O'Brien's farm) an early church 

 site. There were also two lioses, but they have disappeared. Ballyvodick 

 Castle was one of the 220 places in Ballymore raided by Hugh O'Neill in 

 1599. Some years later the castle was leased by William and John Hodnett 

 to Louis O'Cahill, of Eathgobbane, who later lost his all in the Confederate 

 Wars. At this latter period, or shortly afterwards, the castle was destroyed — 

 apparently by gunpowder. Windele (mss., E.LA., xii, I. 3) refers to two 

 ancient claidhes (dykes) which ran through the townland. Area, in two 

 divs., 932 A. 



S.DD. " Lady Well," now closed ; so named from a lady of the Broderick 

 family. 



Ath an Eisc — " Ford of the Fish " ; the name is applied to a sub-div., 

 containing approximately 150 A. 



Baneshase, Ban Sheaghain — " John's Bawn." Area, 249 A. 



S.D. Pairc na mBile— " Field of the Old Trees." 



Gaekyduff, Garraidhe Dubh — "Black Garden." Area, 2-33 A. 



Knockgriffin, Cnoc Ghrifin — " Griffin's Hill." Area, 36 a. 

 Knockangriffin (Inq. Car. 1). 



EossiiOKE, Eos Mor—" Great Shrubbery." 



S.DD. Brick Island (O.M.), Oilean na Brice — Idem ; an island at high 

 water only. Here are the remnants of what must have been a kitchen-midden 

 of prodigious size. At present the shell-mound is only a couple of hundred 

 feet long by 10 or 15 yards wide, but originally it was over a thousand 

 feet in length and of unknown width and height. The river channel has 

 been eating into the mound for centuries, and the materials have been carted 

 away for brick-making and road-mending. The pile consists mainly of oyster 

 shells, but there are also cockle, whelk, and mussel shells. No implements 



