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(Ferfcain), where Donall, brother of King Torlongh, fell upon Thomas de 

 Clare's army, and put them into fearful confusion. " They first converted 

 their front into a hustling, pushing rear, and then faced about their rear and 

 made a front of it, and so, before the unhappy wretches began to run, they 

 were all turned end for end the wrong way " ; as Donall, like a hawk, swooped 

 into their midst. Kilgorey, Ooill ghuaire, Guary's Wood, was in 1311 the 

 field of another fierce battle between Prince Murchad O'Brien and the Ui 

 Bloid. Of other names we note Eosslara and Creevosheedy bog^ as wood- 

 sites, and Ardskeagh, the old name of Broadford, as commemorating a haw- 

 thorn. Lismeehan or Mary fort was well planted when, on March 25, 1788, 

 it was leased by Kalph and John Westropp of Attyflin to Thomas Gabbett. 

 " Whereas " (runs the lease)' *' there is now standing, growing, and being on 

 the said demesne and premises a large quantity of ash, oak, and other timber," 

 Gabbett is empowered to cut down and dispose of the same ; the place was 

 replanted by George O'Callaghan in the years about 1840 ; and no older 

 timber seems to remain there. At Ballinahinch and Kilbarron, we have an 

 early notice of destruction of trees in 1634 (1635). Therlagh O'Brien, High 

 Sheriff of Clare, was found by Inquisition to have wasted the woods of 

 Manogullen, taking five great oaks in the same and Kilwarren^ (Kilbaron) 

 for making Irish hutches, and sold the same in Galway, also thirty pieces for 

 rafters to Piers Creagh of Limerick, timber for Gilladuff Molony's house, forty 

 ash trees and 100 young oak " saplings, cut down, lying on his ground, for 

 what use we know not," in February, 1630. He let a kitchen, stable, bake- 

 house, and four other structures, all of couples, fall down at Ballinahinch, 

 and pulled down four timber houses at Kilwarren and Managullen, and let 

 Donnell Mac Namara of Ballinahinch, the King's ward, go to Mass, having 

 been appointed his guardian. 



A bush-name attached to a fort, " Liskeheenanodri," the fort of the 

 little (thorn) bush of the sods, on the hill of Coolreaghbegg, is named in a 

 partition deed of Matthew and Thady O'Brien of Coolreagh in 1736.* The 

 trees and woods in the adjoining district of Cinel Dungaley were granted 

 by Henry, son of Hugh O'Grady, to Conor O'Brien in 1586.^ 



(13) In the Lower Barony we again find evidence of extensive oak- 

 forests— Derrynaveagh, Keelderry, two Killaderrys near Broadford, Derry- 

 vinnaun, Coolderry, Knockaderreen, and Barnanderreen, the last in Eoss ; 



1 From a Sioda or Sheeda Mac Namai-a, perhaps the chief who restored Quin Abbey in 1402. 



~ Dublin Registry, B. 408, p. 92. 3 ]S[o. 129 of Inqs. Car. I. 



* In possession of Col. George O'Callaghan Westropp, of Coolreagh, with a most interesting 

 mass of papers of friendly "Protestant discoveries," made for the O'Briens by their trustees, the 

 Drews and Westropps, to save the O'Brien's lands from less disinterested actions. 



^ Hardiman, Deed xxx. 



