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county, all living about this district. The M'Canns and O'Lar- 

 kens (now Larken), of Clann Breasil, and the O'Cahans, of 

 Keenaght, Co. Deny, are, too, found not far away from their ancient 

 sites. The O'Boyles, probably those of Donegal, are still nume- 

 rous, and the ancient Ui Tuirtre and Fir Li, of whom OFhloinn 

 (O'Lyn), a descendant of Colla Uais, was king in 1177, and held 

 then all Dalriada, are still to be found in their ancient locality. 

 In S. Patrick's time they dwelt on the west side of the Bann, 

 but, as Dr. O'Donovan shows, they were certainly on the east side 

 of it when Sir John de Courcy invaded Ulster, having in all proba- 

 bility driven out the posterity of Cairbre Riada, the ancient posses- 

 sors of the soil. 



The townland names which I am examining at present, both 

 the early lists preserved in the Inquisitions and in other documents, 

 and those still in use, show that many of the native names still 

 current are to be found near their ancient localities. The various 

 Duns throughout the county are generally made of this word and 

 the name of some ancient families ; Bally and Lis and other words 

 are not unfrequently compounded in the same way. Thus we 

 have a Carrive Murphy where Murpheys are still numerous. 

 There is a Knock, and a Lis Macolusky, where MacCluskeys 

 (a sept, as I have said, of the O'Cahans), are still to be found. We 

 have Bally scullion {cf. Ti Scullen), and many of that name still 

 living there. We have Dun-gonnel, Tully-bally-donnel, &c, all 

 pointing to O'Donnels or MacDonnels of other times. Straid- 

 havern (street, as Joyce has it — more probably Scotch Strath, a 

 valley), contains the name of a native stock not dwelling at present 

 far from their former abode. Duneany probably contains the name 

 of a sept called the O'Heaneys (formerly of Clann Kearny;, still to 

 be found not far away from this ancient fort. Straidnahanna, and 

 Hannahstown, and perhaps Dunanney, all near each other, are sig- 

 nificant of the locality occupied by the ancestors of the Hannahs 

 (not the Scotch family of that name), still living in the "county. 

 The Murrigan, contained in Muinter Murrigan and Listy-murrigan, 

 are, perhaps, now represented by Morgans. 



