290 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Cahirconlish, and the '"' blue streams " round Grrian ; but alludes to no other 

 forests passed on the march. The Civil Survey of 1655 shows that, far later, 

 dense forests lay all along Slieve Phelim ; some 2,600 acres of forest in Doon 

 and Uastletowncoonagh, and nearly as much along the hills near Glenstall.^ 

 The surveyors, as usual, seem to give the forests as on the slopes and lower 

 hills, the waste uplands being evidently treeless. 



(17) Except an allusion in Lisnacullia and the orchard-name Oola (Uibhla 

 in the " Cathreim," in some copies), we have no noteworthy names in Coonagh. 

 Small County has Kilderry and Gortnaskagh. The Inquisition, on the death 

 of Thomas fitz ]\Iaurice (" an Appagh ") FitzGerald, gives the first " Kyldere " 

 in Grienogra manor in 1298. Coshmagh has Derryvinnaun, BallycuUeeny (of 

 holly), and Creevebeg, if the last be a wood-name. The forests on the hill- 

 slopes of Coshlea have left little trace. The parish of Darragh was called 

 Darrach-muchua, at least as early as in Prince John's charter to the monks 

 of Magio in 1185-1199. It and the townlands Darraghbeg and More mark 

 an old oak forest. Kylegreana, and, perhaps, Emlygrennan, commemorate a 

 wood, and perhaps a " bili " or venerated old tree, if the Ordnance Survey 

 Letters are right as to the form being "mbhili Groidhnin" (Grynin's tree),^ 

 but it is already Imelach Dregingi in the Magio Charter and all other ancient 

 documents known to me.^ Farther eastward, Lackendarragh and the parish 

 of Kilbeheney mark the oak and birch as having grown in those glens ; the 

 last was Kylmyhyn in 1347, and Coillbeithne in 1502.* 



(18) The Maigue Valley, with its ancient residences and tribes, was 

 possibly comparatively cleared land, even in pre-Christian times. An occasional 

 name like Derryvinnane or Adare (the Oak ford) is perhaps as much as we 

 should expect to find in it. Still, it is easy to be misled, for there were about 

 1,300 acres of wood and shrubbery in Adare, Croom, and Athlacca parishes in 

 1655.^ A century later, in 1752, Dr. Pococke notes none of the woods in Co. 

 Limerick ; Mr. Bury's fine plantations at Shannon Grove, in Kerry, with an 

 orchard and " syder-house," are alone mentioned.® 



Similarly, in Pubblebrian, we only find hawthorn bushes named at 

 Skehanagh and Crecora (locally Crayhoorah, fragrant-boughed bush). The 

 oak is named at Derryknockane and at Kilderry, the hazel at Barnakyle. 

 At the opposite side of the Maigue, and, though a shrub, we may give the 

 gooseberry at Lisnasprunane near Adare (for the baronies and parishes no 

 longer cross the wider tidal river below Adare) ; Kenry barony only gives us 

 a "little oak-wood," Derreen inKilcornan and the doubtful name TinacuUia, 



1 Civil Survey, vols, xxx., xxxi. ^ 0. S. L., Limerick. 



3 Proc. R.I. A., XXV. (c), p. 428. ^ Gormanston Reg. and Ann. Four Masters. 



^ Civil Survejs xxiv. ''' Pococlce's " Tour in' Ireland," p. 115. 



