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little island in Mayo, viz,, Inishdaweel ; while we have two yellow 

 cows in Inishdawee, the name of two townlands in Galway. The 

 small river Owendalulagh, flowing from the slopes of Slieveaughty, in 

 Galway, into Lough Cutra, near Gort, is called in the old authorities, 

 Abhainn-da-laoilgheach, the river of the two milch cows, which name 

 is accounted for by a legend in the Dinnseanchus. 



There is a legend also concerning the origin of Clondagad, in Clare, 

 the Cloon of the two gads or withes. Jocelin recounts another legend 

 accounting for the name Dun-da-leath-glas, anciently applied to the 

 great rath at Downpatrick, and the first syllable of which has ori- 

 ginated the name of Down, St. Patrick's name being added in con- 

 sequence of his connexion with the place ; the ancient name signifies, 

 according to the Latin writers, the fortress of the two broken locks, or 

 fetters. The two remarkable mountains in Kerry now called the Paps, 

 were anciently called, and are still, in Irish, Da-chfch-Danainne ; the 

 two paps of Danann, a celebrated lady of the Tuatha De Dananns, 

 from whom they derived their name ; and the plain on which they 

 stand is called Bun-a'-da-chich, the bottom or foundation of the two 

 paps. 



A very singular name is Dromahaire, which is that of a village in 

 Leitrim ; the Four Masters sometimes call it Baile-ui-Euairc, because 

 it was formerly the property of the O'Rourkes ; but generally they give 

 it the more ancient name of Druim-da-ethiar, which O'Donovan trans- 

 lates, the ridge of the two air- spirits or demons. Tradition has lost 

 all memory of the two evil spirits that haunted the place and origi- 

 nated the name, and we should be in ignorance of the true ancient form 

 if our Annals had not preserved it. 



In this great diversity it must be supposed that two persons would 

 find a place, and accordingly we find Kildaree, the church of the two 

 kings, the name of two townlands in Galway (for which see Sir Wil- 

 liam "Wilde's " Lough Corrib"), and of another near Crossmolina, Mayo. 

 There is a fort one mile south of the village of Killoscully, Tipperary, 

 called Lisdavraher, the fort of the two friars ; and there is another 

 of the same name in the south of Ballymoylan townland, parish of 

 Youghalarra, in the same county : in both these cases it is likely that 

 the two friars were two ghosts. 



There is a parish called Toomore, in the county Mayo, taking its 

 name from an old church standing near the river Moy ; it is also the 

 name of a townland in the parish of Aughrim, Roscommon, and of a 

 townland and parish in Sligo. This is a very curious, and a very an- 

 cient name. Toomore, in Mayo, is written Tuaim-da-bhodhar by Duald 

 Mac Firbis and the Four Masters ; and Tuaim-da-bhodar in a poem in 

 the "Book of Lecan," transcribed in 1416 or 1417, by Giolla Iosa Mor 

 Mac Firbis. The pronunciation of the original is Tooma-our, which 

 easily sank into Toomore. The name signifies the tomb of the two 

 deaf persons; but who they were neither history nor tradition re- 

 cords. 



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