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336. MiLLTowis", OR BALLTWULLrN- (24). — Same. InCoonagh. It is 

 said to have been founded for Carmelites by Nellan O'MoUoy (Mon. 

 Hib., p. 432). Dyneley sketched its ruins in 1680. They were then a 

 low, central tower, with double lights and comer pinnacles partly 

 broken. A wing (perhaps to west) has in its gable a double light 

 over an elaborate doorway. Long walls extend to a gate on the 

 right (? south) ; and across a cloister garth, or yard, is seen a parallel 

 wing, with gables. All, even then, was greatly broken.^ Even in 

 1840 one old man alone remembered its ruined walls in an untilled 

 patch of ground. Mr. E. B. Fennessy describes the site as a rath- 

 like mound, 150 feet by 21 feet, used for burial till 1890, when 

 the rough tombstones and the surrounding walls were removed to 

 build fences. 



337. Grean", or Pallas Grean^ (24). — A parish in Coonagh. Grian, 

 in Aradhac, c. 450 ("Trip. Life," p. 203); SpiaTi,^ 914 (A.F.M.); Gren 

 manor granted to the Bishop of Emly, 1216; granted to Maurice 

 Fitzgerald, the justiciary, 1233, and a fair established, 1234 (C.S.P.I., 

 962,715,2045,2183); Grena church and deanery, 1302. Agnes de 

 Yalence was deprived of Estgrene, worth lO.s., by Tatheg O'Brien, but 

 got damages from T. declare in 1287 (Mem. E., 1306). In 1318,Galfrid 

 Harold, rector of Grene, rescued a prisoner, and was tried for it (Plea 

 R. 123 of xi Ed. IL, m. 34) ; and John, Earl of Kildare, called on the 

 Abbot of AVethney to appoint a proper parson to the vacant church 



m. 18). Greane, 1586 (Peyton, p. 1) ; Green church, down^ 

 chancel repaired, 1615. JP^^^j Qepspene, people of Grene 

 (O'Donovan). Site — The modern I. C. church is on the old site. 

 Thomas Dyneley, in 1680, gives a view of the church.^ He shows a 

 nearly levelled wing, with a round-headed door, and double-light 

 window in the low side wall ; to the right is the chancel, in repair ; 

 near the west end is a north door, with a pointed arch, and ornate hood 



1 Plate XIII. 



2 There is a well, Tobernarughilla, and an alleged graveyard near Linfield 

 House (O.S., 24). 



3 For the legendary Grian of the bright cheeks " (a suspiciously solar heroine) 

 and the wild legend of the sons of Conall and their transformation by her into 

 badgers, see Dr. Joyce's Irish Names of Places," Part II., chap, xiv., p. 242. 

 Her sidh, or fauy fort, is known as Seefin, whence "Pallas," usually understood 

 as " fairy fort" among the peasantry. The hill of Grian was at first called 



Cnoc ne Guradh," or 'champions' hill.' 

 ^ Plate XII. 



