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Killadrown, in the parish of Drunicullen, King's County, is evidently 

 the same word shortened by local corruption. Drumder«own, in Cork, 

 and Drumdir#owen, in Kerry, are both modern forms of Druim-'dir-dha- 

 Abhainn, the ridge between two rivers, where the Irish dha is repre- 

 sented by a in the present names. In Cloonederowen, Galway — the 

 meadow between two rivers — there is no representative of the dha, 

 though it exists in the Irish name j and a like remark applies to BaUy- 

 derown (the town between two rivers), an old castle situated in the 

 angle where the rivers Puncheon and Araglin, in Cork, mingle their 

 waters. Coracow, in the parish of Killaha, Kerry, is a name much 

 shortened from its original Comhrac-dha-abha, the meeting of the two 

 streams. The Four Masters at A. D. 528, record a battle fought at a 

 place called Luachair-mor-etir-da-inbhir, the large rushy place between 

 two river mouths, otherwise called Ailbhe, or Cluain-Ailbhe, now 

 Clonalvy, in the county Meath. 



With glaise (a stream), instead of Abhainn, we have Ederdaglass, 

 the name of two townlands in Fermanagh, meaning (a place) between 

 two streams ; and Drumederglass, in Cavan, the ridge between two 

 streams. Though all trace of da is lost in this name, it is preserved in 

 the Down Survey, where the place is called Drumaderdaglass. 



Ederdacurragh, in Fermanagh, means (a place) between two marshes ; 

 Aderavoher, in Sligo, is in Irish Eadar-dha-bhothair (a place) between 

 two roads, an idea that is otherwise expressed in Gould avoher, near 

 Mungret, Limerick, the fork of the two roads. Lrunidirtf lough, in 

 Kerry, the ridge between two lakes ; and Drumederalena, in Sligo, the 

 ridge between the two Unas, or meadows ; Inchider^ille near Incha- 

 geelagh, is in Irish Inis-idir-dha-f haill, the island or river holm between 

 two cliffs ; a similar position has given name to Derdaoil or Dariel, a 

 little village in the parish of Kilmastulla, Tipperary, which is shortened 

 from the Irish Idir-da-f haill, between two cliffs ; Cloonaderavally, in 

 Sligo, the cloon or meadow between the two bailies, or townlands. 



Crockada, in the parish of Clones, Fermanagh, is only a part of the 

 Irish name Cnoc-eadar-da-ghreuch, the hill between the two marshy 

 flats ; the true form of the present name would be Knockadder. Mogh, 

 the name of a townland in the parish of Eathlynin, Tipperary, is also 

 an abbreviation of a longer name ; the inhabitants call it Magh-idir- 

 dha-abhainn, the plain between two rivers. 



The well known old church of Aghadoe, near Killarney, which gives 

 name to a parish, is called by the Four Masters, at 1581, Achadh-da-eo, 

 the field of the two yew trees, which must have been growing near each 

 other, and must have been sufficiently large and remarkable to attract 

 general attention. Part of the townland of Drumharkan Glebe, in the 

 parish of Cloone, Leitrim, is called Cooldao, the back of the two yews. 

 In the townland of Cornagee, parish of Killinagh, Cavan, there is a deep 

 cavern, into which a stream sinks ; it is called Polla-daossan, the hole 

 of the two bushes. 



In the parish of Killashee, Longford, there is a village and townland 

 called Cloondara, containing the ruins of what was once an important 



