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implies a forest, for che rocks near it are named Furreera, not FuiTeeslia. 

 More inland, BallycuUeeny implies ' hoUy-lrees,' and Ardnaciillia, ' a wood'; the 

 English form of the latter, " Woodmount," is found near Ennistymon ; Derry- 

 nakeilla is found in Kiltoraght. Caheraderry is named as Cahiridarum in 

 1189 in the charter, granted by King Donald O'Brien to Clare Abbey/ The 

 subsequent allusions are merely incidental, the most striking being that where 

 the Four Masters tell us in 1573 how " the wolves of the forest " to the south 

 of Lehinch rejoiced over the bodies of the O'Briens slain there in the frontal 

 attack on the hill near Beal an chip. 



In 1655 good timber was found ^in Clooney 247 acres, and Kilnianaheen 

 62 acres. Eound Kilfenora lay abundant dwarf wood (557 acres), which also 

 was found in Kilmanaheen (119 acres) and Kilshanny (162 acres), but only 

 10 acres lay in Kilmacreehy, and 65 acres of shrubbery in Clooney. About 

 309 acres of timber trees, and 900 of dwarf trees and shrubs, or 1220 acres in 

 all. Most of the land was in pasture, and some in tillage. In the low ground 

 at Kilmanaheen " Currough pastures, full of rushes and overgrown gutters,"^ 

 were then, as now, a characteristic. 



Little is recorded of the eighteenth century ; but, in 1808, Hely Button's 

 inquiries for the Statistical Survey inform us^ that, in Burren, a small farmer 

 named Keady had about twenty years before brought seedling ash -trees and 

 quickens from Dublin. These trees had greatly improved, though in bare, 

 craggy ground. The country about Ennistymon was entirely stripped of 

 trees by 1808. But Michael Daly, a reputed centenarian, who died in 1796, 

 remembered woods of full-grown oak and ash covering that district. Since 

 then the MaclSTamaras have planted the pretty glen round their house along 

 the cascades of the Inagh river. Similarly, the O'Briens, despite its exposed 

 site, have planted the ridge on which Ballinalacken Castle stands, with much 

 success ; and the late Dr. W. H. Stacpoole Westropp planted the glen near 

 the Spectacle Bridge, and other spots at Lisdoonvarna. A neglected planta- 

 tion on the eastern slope of Slieve Elva and abundant floujiishing woods at 

 Gragans, Ballyallaban, and Ballyvaughan, in Glenaraga, with abundance of 

 hawthorn woods behind Ballinalacken, and tall hazel thickets at Poulacarran 

 and Kilcorney, show that much might be done to afforest even the apparently 

 most hopeless part of Clare. 



(5) Inchiquin. — In this barony we find, especially round its beautiful 



1 Journal Eoy. Soc. Ant., vol. xxii., p. 78. " Kandiidarum " is evidently intended for Kaheri- 

 darum. We only have it in a pooi- seventeenth-century copy, MSS. Trinity College Library, F. i., 15. 

 The forests at the various places are given to the Abbey. 



- The Civil Survey of Clanmorris, Barony of Kerry, defines its usage of this term as " a gutter 

 or running spring'' (page 2). 



^ Statistical Survey of Co. Clare, p. 269. 



