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PUBBLEBEIAN. 



The present name (so far as we can ascertain) appears to have 

 come into nse in the fifteenth century under the rule of the O'Briens 

 of Carrigogunnell. The upper part formed, with part of Clanwilliam, 

 the lands of the Tuath Luimneach and 0' Gunning family. It appears 

 after the I^orman settlement as Aescluana, Esclon, and Askelon, and 

 covered most of the parishes of Kilkeedy, Mungret, and Knocknegall, 

 or Crewmalley. The latter was the land of the Ui Mhaille tril^e, 

 while the Ocholchur lay round Crecora ; though O'Huidhrin regarded 

 this place as Aes-tri-muige in 1420, the ^Norman Estermoy certainly 

 lay much farther northward. Corcamore covered southern Kilkeedy 

 from the brooke Gyle and Carrigogunnell to Faha and Barnakyle. 

 The O'Briens held the greater part of this district, perhaps from the 

 middle of the fourteenth century, under some almost nominal recogni- 

 tion of the Earls of Desmond. Their lands are so carefully specified 

 in Elizabethan documents that we can see that Pubblebrian (save for 

 a portion of Knocknegall added before 1655, and a portion of Mungret 

 added since that date) in 1583 differs very little in extent from the 

 present barony. 



Kilkeedy. 



106. Carrigogunnell (4). Marked. 1209 ^' Carrac IJi Conaing,"^ 

 granted by Charter to Donchad Cairbreach O'Brien, Prince of Thomond 

 (Ann. Inisf.). The C. is said to have been occupied by the O'Briens 

 in 1336 (Inq. Exchequer, 1, 1536). It has been supposed to be the 

 C. of Escion,^ but is nowhere identified as such. 1426 Teige O'Brien, 

 '^na glenore," ancestor of the O'Briens of Carrigogunnell, died 

 (A.F.M.). 1502 Donough O'Brien, Lord of Pubblebrian and Aherloe 

 died (A.F.M.). This ''strong Rock and House of Defence" of the 

 O'Briens only appears in history in 1536. When the Parliament 

 adjourned that year to Limerick, Edward Lord Grey, the Deputy 



^ It is not marked in the map of 1567, but appears as Carrig Gunning in 

 Hardiman Map, No. 63. The name is given as Carykgonyn by Mercator 

 ed. Hondii, 1606 and 1636, " Hibernise pars australis." 



2 Archdall says that Carrigogunnell was a Templary. No authority discoverable 

 for this statement. The " Candle " name appears in 1536. The legend is given 

 by Hall and Crofton Croker. Nearly all the "history" of the former is mythical. 

 Hall's "Ireland," vol. i. 



