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small woods, we find in Kilnaboy, 711 acres; in Eath, 23; in Dysert, 433; 

 and in Kilnamona, 134, with 1,300 acres of shrubbery — in all 3,400 acres. 



South- Western Claee. 



(6) Islands. — We now go southward to the west of the Eiver Fergus. 

 Beginning at that river, we find, in the barony of Islands, oak-names at 

 Derrygarve in Kilmaley and Derrynacragga, and Darragh in Killone, and 

 traces of osieries in the names of Willowbank and Drumcliffe, the Drumleb 

 of the Papal Taxation of 1302. Mac Grath mentions the woods of Forbair, 

 now Furroor, and " the green-oaked, spreading-boughed, clear- strea^med 

 Drumgrencha," the ridge of Edenvale and Eockmount, in which lurked the 

 clan Turlough, till destiny gave their foes Mahon and his army into their 

 hands at Clare Abbey, followed by the sack of Ennis and the fearful massacre 

 of the captives in the bog of Moinnasaed, in 1278. These woods were, 

 however, nearly cleared away by 1655. Killone had then 60 acres of shrubs, 

 probably at Edenvale;^ Clare Abbey parish had 17 acres of dwarf wood; 

 Drumcliffe had 103 acres of good timber, much shrubby crag and dwarf 

 timber, covering 1,220 acres; while, further south, Clondegad had only 2 acres 

 of wood and 165 of shrubbery. If we are not pressing too far the formal 

 phraseology of King Donald's charter to Clare Abbey in 1189, Kellonia, 

 Kilbreakin, Dromore, and Inchicronan, in central Clare, were granted with 

 their woods to the monks — " campis et nemoribus." 



(7) Ibrickan, lying along the Atlantic, has more tree-names than might 

 be expected. The country at Quilty must have been wooded when the name 

 was first established ; the bogs are full of stumps ; but we can hardly suppose 

 our nomenclature goes so far back. There were also oak-woods, as at 

 Derreen, Knockdarragh (oak-hill), and Derryard (high oak-wood), near 

 Doonbeg. Emlagh, though the name may mean " boundary," may, like 

 its more southern namesake, imply the former existence of a " bUi," an 

 ancient and venerated tree. We have, however, no documentary evidence 

 of any early form of the name. The places on the northern border named 

 Freagh and Freaghavalleen show that then, as now, it was covered with 

 heathery moors. In 1655 Killard was devoid of woods ; shrubberies were 

 found in Kilfarboy (32 acres) and Kilmurry Ibrickan (158 acres): to this day 

 the barony is equally bare, save at a few of the houses of the gentry, where 

 trees grow behind the shelter of walls or in stream glens. Indeed, for nearly 

 twenty miles inland, trees, and even the sturdy hawthorns, bend eastward, 

 " turning their backs on the sea." 



^ That townland was formed of portions of Eallone, Killniorane, and Cahercalla, and got its 

 present name about 1778 when purchased by tbe Stacpooles, 



