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30 feet high and 143 feet 2 inches in eu'cumferenee, erected in 1815. Area, 

 226 A. 



S.DD. Baile an tSeiscinn — " Homestead of the Fen," a sub-div. contain- 

 ing about 80 A. 



Lies an Ghruasaigh — Grugach (from Gruag, hair) was a legendary spirit, 

 or supei-man, •whose name signifies haiiy, fierce, stern, or wrinkled. This lies 

 was one of the three so recently destroyed. 



Spike Island — I got the name Oilean a Spice locally, but this is evidently 

 of modem manufactiu-e, thongh O'Longan so called the place in 1798. The 

 island is called Inis Pie in the Irish Life of Mocnda, and the fomis Innys 

 Picke and Spike Island occur in Inquisitions of William and Mary and 

 Car. I, respectively. 1 would suggest that Inis Pic may be a corruption or 

 wearing down of Inis Easpoig; but the difficulty is that the writer of 

 Mochuda's Life should not know this. St. Moehuda of Lismore founded a 

 religious house here in the eighth century ; and the British Government ten 

 centuries later (1847) established in its place another house of quite a 

 different character. 



"Walteestows, Baile an Bhaiteir— '' Waters" Homestead." On Murphy's 

 fann are traces of a demolished lies. On Michael Mahoney's holding is a 

 holy well beside an ancient burial-gioimd, locally believed to have been 

 the scene of a battle. Slightly to west of ilorlogue Point are some oyster 

 and other shell deposits, indicating a prehistoric settlement of kitchen- 

 midden type. A natural cave in the cliff at East Ferry is believed to have 

 been a place where Mass was celebrated in the Penal times. There is also 

 a site, with some nondescript remains of a castle of the Waters family, later 

 the property of the Lavallins. Area, 330 A. 



S.DD. Morlogue Point (0. M.), possibly from Marl, which was dug here. 

 Cnocan na Croiche — " Little Hill of the Gallows." on south slope of hOl. 

 Here in a field was found a number of stone-lined giaves. 



PoU an Chaorthain — " Pool of the Quicken Tree," a hole or pool in the 

 navigable channel. 



Boithiin a Che — " Little Eoad of the Quay." 



Parish of Templeusque. 



The name signifies " Water Church." At present the site is high and 

 dry, and the etymology seems inadmissible and physically impossible. Hence 

 another derivation has been put forward and pretty generally accepted — 

 Temple Loiscthe (" Burat Church "). From traditional popular usage it is 

 not possible to deteraiine which is the proper form ; both forms are freely 



