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some extent, confounded one with the other ; in modern Irish, the § is 

 very generally substituted for the older 6. In topographical names, 

 this aspirated g is often hardened or restored (after the manner shown 

 in page 226) ; and thus many names have been corrupted both in writing 

 and pronunciation, by the substitution of g for 6. But as far as I have 

 examined, I find only one example of the reverse — d for 5. 



The barony of Corcaguiny, in Kerry, should have been called Cor- 

 caduinny, for the Irish name is Copca-'Ohuibne, i. e., the race or 

 progeny (eorca) of Duibhne, who was grandson of Conaire Mor, mo- 

 narch of Ireland in the third century. Corca-Dhuibhne was origin- 

 ally the name of a tribe ; but, after a custom very common in Ireland, 

 it was transferred to the territory they inhabited. 



There are four townlands called Gargrim, in the counties of Done- 

 gal, Fermanagh, Leitrim, and Tyrone. The Irish name is 5 ea PP- 

 &puim, i. e. short ridge or hill, and it is correctly anglicised in Gar- 

 drum, the name of two townlands, one in Fermanagh,- and the other in 

 Tyrone. In exactly the same way was formed Fargrim, the name of 

 two townlands, one in Fermanagh, and the other in Leitrim ; it is in 

 Irish pap&puim or pop&puim (outer ridge), in which form it appears 

 in the Four Masters at A.D. 1153 ; in its correct anglicised form, Far- 

 drum, it occurs in the name of two townlands, one in Fermanagh, and 

 the other in "Westmeath. Drumgonnelly in the parish and county of 

 Louth, should have been called Drumdonnelly , from the Irish t)puim- 

 t)hon$aile, the ridge or hill of the Donnellys. iMoneygold in the 

 parish of Ahamlish, Sligo, is corrupted from TYluine-t)hubalcai<5, 

 Dubhaltach's or Dudley's shrubbery. The townland of Bossdagamph, 

 in parish of Inishmacsaint, Fermanagh, is "Rop-t)a-6ani, the promon- 

 tory of the two oxen. It was a mistake the reverse of this, that gave 

 their present English name to the Ox mountains in Sligo. The Irish 

 name in all our Annals, is Sliab-gaiti . (which probably means stormy 

 mountain); but the natives, believing it to be Sliab-barn, i. e. the 

 mountain of the oxen, have accordingly perpetuated the present in- 

 correct name. 



V. Insertion of t hetween s and r. — The combination sr is one of com- 

 paratively rare occurrence in modern European languages ; there is not 

 a single word in English, French, German, Greek, or Latin, beginning 

 with it, though many of their words are undoubtedly derived from 

 roots commencing with these two letters. 



The Irish language has retained this combination, and in the Irish 

 dictionaries, a considerable number of words will be found commencing 

 with sr. Of these, there are, so far as I know, only four that enter 

 often into topographical names. These are ppdit>, a street; ppac, a 

 holm or inch — the lowland along a river; pp6n, literally a nose, but in 

 a secondary sense, applied to points of hills, promontories, &c. ; and 

 ppuc, a stream, with its derivative ppucaip, and diminutives ppucdn 

 and ppuilfn. It was not to be expected that the English language, 

 which within its own domain does not admit of the union of s and r, 



