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O'Douovan's visit. However, Hugh Brigdall, in his description of Co. Clare, 

 about 1695, notes that yew and juniper abounded in Burren.^ On the shore 

 of G-alway Bay we have Eossalia, if the ' Eoss ' be not a point rather than a 

 wood. Some writers mention the wood of Siudaine on the same shore, about 

 Muckinish ; but the old writers call it a camp or a place. The " Cathreim 

 Thoirdhealbhaigh," a fourteenth-century history, shows that there were thick 

 woods at more than one spot in the Turlough valley, to the south-east of the 

 last. We hear twice of Dubh G-leann wood, or Coillanair, the wood of 

 slaughter, at Deelin, in this glen, mentioned in a poem of about 1281, cited 

 in the"^" Cathreim." Eound Slieve Elva, we find evidence of an oak-forest at 

 Derrynavahagh, near Lisdoonvarna, and of an ash-wood at Ballinshenmore, on 



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The early maps, 1590-1610, show large masses of forests about Feakle; north of Killaloe ; at 

 Cratloe ; from Kilmurry MacMahon up to luagh and Kilnamona ; and between Corofin and 

 Inchicronan (see Hardiman, No. 63 ; Speed, &c.). 



which that village is built ; while another ash-name occurs at Gleninshin, in 

 Kilcorney. The names Feenagh and Caherf eenagh show that the deep valley 

 behind Eathborney was wooded ; indeed, large ash-trees still grow in it near 

 the great crescent of the stone fort of Lismacsheedy ; while at the head of the 

 pass above it is the ancient ring-wall of Caheranardurrish, which O'Donovan 

 derives from " Ardross," the high wood. In 1094, wdien the Siol Muiredagh 

 wasted Corcomroe and East Connaught, they slew many of their enemies in a 

 desperate battle against Tadgh, son of Euaidri O'Conor at Fidnagh.- This 



1 " Commonplace Book relating to Ireland" (MSS. Trinity College, Dublin, I. 1-2, p. 235). 

 * Annals of Ulster. 



