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passed by Kilmainham, ''ridd northward in and throw the water of 

 Amplyffy to the west end of Elyn Hor hir medue, for that is calld 

 the ford of Kylmahenoke, for the Lyll that is now called the hyll of 

 Isold's Fonte of old tyme was called Kylmahenoke hyll." In the 

 yet earlier perambulation of the boundaries of Dublin, in 1326-1327, 

 the Ford is called Kylmehanok, an adjacent ford being called Tireles- 

 ford. And again, in the riding of the franchises of 1603, the tradition 

 is still preserved, mention being made of " the hill called Kilmahen- 

 nock's hill, and nowe the hill of Isold's font, which is a bow-shot of 

 the west side of Isold's font and west of Ellen Hoare's meddowe, over 

 which font is a great hathorne tree."^ 



1 Dublin Records, i., 494, 157, 196. 



By the kindness of Father Hogan, to whose learning all students of Irish 

 topography owe a large debt, I am permitted to quote the following note from his 

 as yet unpublished Onomasticon Goidelicum" : — " The Charter of John, Lord 

 of Ireland, of the year 1192, states the metas or boundaries of Dublin : — ' in occi- 

 dental! parte de Dublin ah Ecclesia S. Patricii per vallem [the modern Coombe, cf. 

 Irish and Welsh Ciini] usque ad Karnanclonegunethe (Carnan Clono Ui Dunchada), 

 now corrupted to Dolphin's Barn, at which is a remarkable heap or mound 

 (Carnan)] et deinde usque ad divisam terrae de Kylemenan, et ultra aquam de 

 Kylmeinan juxta Avenelith (the Liffey) usque ad vada de Kihnehauoc, et ultra 

 aquam de Avenelith versus Boream per Ennocnagauhoc' Gilbert's National 

 MSS. of Ireland, Part II., LXV. In a copy of this Charter, an. 1200, in 

 Sweetman's * Calendar of State Papers,' p. 22, it is written Cellmohafoch : the 

 citizens of Dublin in 1236 grant to Eandulf le Hore a meadow extending from the 

 old quarry of the Oustmans to Kilmehauok : the lands of Kylmanan so far as the 

 water of Avenlyf, thence near that water so far as the ford of Xylmehauoc, and 

 beyond the water of Avenlyf, towards the north by Ennocnegannoc towards Cobragh 

 of Dublin (now Cabragh). Gilbert's ' Ancient Records of Dublin,' i., 81, 157, at 

 p. 190, of which M'e have the Ryding of the Frauncheses and Liberties of the City 

 of Dublin according to ancient custome perambulated in 1603 : — ' "We passed over 

 the water at Cammok betwixt the arrable land called now the Leis of Kilniayneham, 

 and so directly westward to that parte of the meddowe that lyeth opposite uppon 

 that parte of the hill called Kilmahennoockes hill and now the hill of Isold's 

 font which is a bow-shot of the M'est syde of Isold's font and west of Ellen 

 Hoare's meddowe over which font is a great hathorne tree and in that part of the 

 meddowe of Kilmaineham the !Maior Swoordbearer and others tooke boate and 

 passed upp the water of AunlyfFe neer Kilniainehame Bridg wher M'as said was a 

 foorde called Kilmahenocks foord and then tooke horse and rode eastward over and 

 by north Isold's font and to the font itselfe and then rode to the slade by north- 

 west the west end of Ellen Hore's meddowe and in and throughethat slade north- 

 w^ard where was saide of oulde time was a huyshe of hathorne and so to the top of 

 the hill,' &c. So Cill-Mosmamocc al. Eilmehanoc (leg. Kilmehauoc), now 

 spanned by Sarah Bridge, a little on the north of which are rudera, which to Ch. 

 M'Neill seem to mark the site of the Cell, half-way on a straight line between the 

 Wellington Monument and the Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park." 



