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tree was destroyed in 1051 by Aed, king of Connaught, and, in its turn, 

 avenged by the destruction of G-rianan Aileach by king Donald, at the dawn 

 of the Norman conquest. We hear of no other tree ; but the place was used 

 for inaugurations down to Tudor times ; and the old name " Moyri," retained 

 in 1655, is still found as " Moyar's Park," near the mound and pillar.^ 

 A well, sheltered by ash-trees, as we so often find in Clare, was named 

 Tobernafhuinsion, and formed the northern bound of the lands of the 

 Norman colony in 1276 ; it was a place of conference with the O'Briens, 

 and is named also in the Norman documents. Macgrath calls it " pasture- 

 girt Tiobra na huinsean " ; the Pipe Eoll of 1299'^ names Tobernafonch and 

 Letton (Latoon) as adjoining lands : so it probably lay near Castlefergus : 

 the only ash-name now known to me in the parish is Bearnafunshin. 



An order was made, September 20th, 1653, ordering " Capt. Stearne 

 to cut from any adjacent woods timber to repair certain " castles in this 

 district, such as Ptalahine, Cloghenabeg, Danginnybracke, Bryan's Castle, and 

 Inchicronan, besides those of Inchiquin, Dysert, and Smithstown (the last 

 perhaps in Corcomroe).^ 



In 1655, the barony had in all 1042 acres of wood, 260 of new plantations, 

 548 of dwarf trees, and 954 of shrubs ; of these, besides the parishes already 

 given, we add Templemaley, 95 acres of wood; Kilraghtis, 235; and 

 Tomfinlough, 112 acres; Doora had 165 of dwarf wood; Tomfinlough, 178; 

 while Quin had 488 of shrubbery and no large timber recorded. 



(11) BuNEATTY Lower. — The names are fewer in this barony, and the 

 history very meagre : the oldest recorded wood-name is Feenish Island, the 

 Fidh Inis of the Life of St. Senan, about 540. There is also a Dernish 

 (Oak Island) near the last. Clonmoney is Cluan munighi in a deed of the 

 Mac Shanes in 1573; but in other documents of equal age it is Cluain- 

 muineach or Shrubbery-plain. Kossmanagher, the old residence of the 

 D'Esterres, was probably a wood. Feenagh and Ardkyle are the Fudach 

 of 1302, and Ardchill of 1287, and Ardcoill in a deed of the Mulconrys 

 in 1548,* and mark the sites of ancient woods ; there were 248 acres of 

 wood in the former in 1655. 



The well-known Cratloe Wood still lives in Kilfintinan. It was of 

 old renown : the army of King Murchad " of the Leather Coats," in 940, 

 found it Cretshallach, the worst pass during their "circuit of Ireland." 

 It is alleged that its timber was used for the roof of Westminster Hall, 



1 Tuanomoyie, 1584, Castle List. Tuananioree, 1655, Down Survey Map. 



2 xxvii Ed. I., No. 26. 3 Diocese of Killaloe, Canon Philip Dwyer, p. 313. 



^ Haidiman, Deeds, xxiii. Trans. R. I. Acad., xv., p. 62. It mentions the woods, underwoods, 

 and unreclaimed tracts of " Magherabelna aba," near Rossmuincher. The last is Rossmuinecar in 

 the next deed (xxiv) of the same year. 



