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(O'Donovan). Fabric — The chnrcli lies in Ballynoe, and lias been 

 remodelled. It was pre-Norman, 33^ feet by 21 feet. The east gable 

 and south-west angle fell before 1840. The south window has lintelled 

 splay and light ; the west door, a round arch of well-cut gritstone, 

 with no keystone ; walls extend south from the west end, and north 

 from the east (O.S.L., 9, p. 167, with sketch). 



211. KiLTANNA (37). — Same. Kiltanna, in Clonelty, "deMagrany," 

 1258 (B.B.L., p. 93), perhaps the Mayryne held by Keynsham, 1228 

 \ih., p. 93); Magrayny, alias Kylteany church, 1418; Magrenny, 

 or Kyltenne church, 1615. See Mayne, /w/r«, section 214. 



212. Mahoonagh^ (36). — A parish in Glenquin. Cluainclaidmech, 

 1201 (see section 208); first identified by Dr. Reeves. Suit of 

 W. de Lascy and N. Le Petit as to Mointaueny (C.S.P.I., vol. i., 

 Nos. 1854, 1904, and Close R.). Mayntauneny church surrendered 

 by Keynsham, 1237 (B.B.L., p. 75). In 1278 Phii. de Wigorn enfeoffed 

 O. de Mariscis with a theodum, exchanged with "W". Prendergast for 

 another in Occonil, called Maccaueni (C.S.P.I., vol. ii., p. 422) ; 

 Moyavenach manor fully given, 1288 {ib., vol. iii., pp. 205, 256) ; 

 church worth 10 marks, 1298 ; dower is claimed off it, Any, Inskyfty, 

 Bonrat (Clare), and Ardrayne (Galway) by Isabella, widow of Gilbert 

 de Clare, 1315 (Plea R. 109 of viii Ed. IT., m. 71). Maytownagh 

 dedicated to St. John the Baptist, 1410 ; Moytawnach in present, 

 com. Dessemon, 1418; Moytawnagh fully given, 1452 (rental). 

 Denis Cahysy, its priest, got pardon for procuring bulls for the canonry 

 of Kilkeedy and rectory of Motawnach, 1558 (Fiant 240). Toghe- 

 Tawnagh, or Mahownagh, 1586 (Peyton, pp. 36, 50, 54). It is locally 



TTlacuTtineac, probably TTlaggamneac, campus vaccarum lacti- 

 ferum" (O'Donovan); others give the form TTIebonac.- Reeves, how- 

 ever, gives the form TTlagcaThnac, from (he states) the pipcarimai^e, 

 a tribe of the TJi Fidgeinte. Fabric — It is 69 feet by 24 feet. East • 

 window was of gritstone pointed, with one shaft branching at top and 

 bar -holes. The south window was early, with inclined jambs, round 



^ Cresdire, in Moyavenach, is named in 1288 (C.S.P.I., p. 44) and in Plea K. 

 (40 of xxvii Ed. I., m. 6, and 44, m. 10). It may be only church land, not a 

 church. Killaready (36) in same ; Kilredyr, in Moyavenach, &c. (C. S.P.I. , vol. iii., 

 p. 205) ; Kylneredyre, 1452, and Peyton, p. 54, and Kilgulloban, in Clonelty, 

 Kyllgultoban, 1568 (Peyton, p. 81), may also not be a church. 



-R.S.A.I., vol. xi. (1870), p. 629. The author argues strongly in favour of 

 the superiority of this form to that given b}^ O'Donovan. 



