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cising them. Very often the original terminations are retained, as in 

 Boolteeny in parish of Kilmore, Tipperary (t>uailctni6e, little booleys 

 or dairy places] ; Hilleeny, in parish of Bally vourney, Cork (fflilltni&e, 

 little hillocks, from meall, a hillock). 



Oftener still, the primary plural inflection is rejected, and its place 

 supplied by the English termination. Eews is the name of a parish in 

 Waterford, and of two baronies in Armagh ; there is also a district in 

 B-oscommon called " The Eews or Eaes of Athlone." The word means 

 " woods," and the two latter places are called by the Pour Masters 

 pea&a, which is the plural of P10&, a wood. Keeloges is the name of 

 about 26 townlands scattered all over Ireland ; it means u narrow 

 ridges or plots," and the Irish name is Caologa, same meaning. Car- 

 rigans is a common name in the North, and Carrigeens in the South ; 

 it is the anglicised form of Cappcngini&e, little rocks. Daars, a town- 

 land in parish of Bodenstown, Kildare, means " oaks" from t)mpge, 

 plural of t)aip, an oak. So Mullans and Mullauns, from TTIulldin, 

 little flat hills; Derreens from T)oipim&e, little derrys or oak groves; 

 Ards and Ardes, from Gpt>a, heights ; Bawnoges from ban 65a, little 

 green fields, &c. 



In many names, the Irish plural form is wholly or partly retained, 

 while the English termination is superadded : these double plurals are 

 very common. Glenties in Donegal, is called in Irish ria 51 ear,nc cufte, 

 "the glens" (sing, glean n). Glentie, which is the proper anglicised form, 

 would of itself mean " glens" without the addition of the s, which 

 makes it a double plural. The place receives its name from its situa- 

 tion at the head of " The glens of Boylagh." Killybegs, the name of 

 a village in the same county, and of several other places in different parts 

 of Ireland, is in Irish Cealla-beaga, little churches. The plural of 

 Clumn (an insulated meadow) is Clucnnce, which is anglicised cloonty, 

 a common townland name. With s added, it becomes Cloonties, the 

 name of some townlands, and of a well-known district near Strokes- 

 town, Eoscommon. This last is called Cloonties, because it consists of 

 24 townlands, all whose names begin with the word " cloon." 



NAMES PARTLY OE WHOLLY ENGLISH. 



X. Translated Names. — "Whoever examines the Index list of town- 

 lands will perceive, that while- a vast preponderance of the names are 

 obviously Irish, a very considerable number are plain English words. 

 These English names are of three classes, viz., really modern English 

 names, imposed by English-speaking people, such as Kingstown, Cas- 

 tleblakeney, Charleville ; those which are translations of older Irish 

 names ; and a third class to which I shall presently refer. With the 

 first kind — pure modern English names — I have nothing to do ; I 

 shall only remark that they are much less numerous than might be at 

 first supposed. 



A large proportion of those townland names that have an English 



