278 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



AuGHTY.— We first must disregard the modern baronies in order to note 

 the enormous oak forest that, even in the fourteenth century and certainly- 

 down to Tudor times/ ran round the flanks of Aughty, and covered the lower 

 slopes of its hills from Crusheen and Inchicronan lake eastward. The dis- 

 tricts in which the " Derry " names are crowded are as a rule devoid of forts, 

 dolmens, castles, and churches, and so were probably from the earliest times 

 to the fifteenth century uninhabited woodland. "We record some fifty such 

 names : Derrynagieera, Derrynacrogg, Derryvet, Derry vinnaun, Derrygoul, 

 Derryhumma, Derryskeagh, Derryfadda, Dei'rynacaheny, Derrymore, Derry- 

 beg, and Durra lie in Inchicronan; which parish, in 1655, had 500 acres of 



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The Oak Forest of Aughty, Co. Clare. 



timber and 200 of young plantations. In Clooney all the large timber had 

 then vanished, but 200 acres of dwarf wood still subsisted ; the parish has the 

 names of Derrycaliff, Derryvoagh, Derryheena, Derryboy, Derrynagullion, 

 Derrynalane, Derrynaskeagh, Derrylush, and Derry crannagh, besides such 

 names as Cnocfuarcoill (cold wood hill, now wrongly "Spancel Hill"),^ and 

 Cranagher (branchy spot). The oak-names continue in Tulla barony and 

 parish. We find there three Derryulks, Derrynabrone, Derrynacloghy, 



1 See Hardiman, Maps, T.C.D., 2, 63, 82. 



"^ See Dr. Joyce: " Irish Names of Places," Part ii., p. 247. 



