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NonE^Goip]. — The Nore, in Irish Goip, Gen. 6oipe, and may- 

 signify the Yew River. In the Book of Leacan, fol. 286, b.b., it is 

 written beoip, which is the word for beer, from which it might be 

 inferred that the water of the river was of a beer colour, or brownish. 

 Keating writes it peoip, which would mean the Grassy River. 



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Phinisk [pionn uip^e]. — Phinish River, -in the county of "Water- 

 ford, empties itself into the Blackwater to the. north of Drumana, 

 according to Seward. Its name is derived from pionn, clear, and 

 uip^e, water. He gives another river called the Fenix, situate in the 

 barony of Imokilly, county Cork, which is similarly derived. In the 

 year 1820 I heard it related by several old Irish scholars, then in 

 Dublin, that the Earl of Chesterfield took the idea of erecting the 

 Phoenix pillar, from the Irish name of a spring well in the centre of 

 the Phoenix Park, called pionn uipge, which wa3 anglicized Fenix, 

 similar to the name of the foregoing river. 



E. 



Ravel "Water [Ppe^abail]. — The Ravel "Water, in the county of 

 Antrim, joins the Dungonnel River, and their united waters fall into 

 the Maine Water. The Irish name is Ppegabail, which may signify 

 the Branch Eiver, from gabal, a branch. It is one of the Heremonian 

 rivers. According to Lecan, fol. 290, b. a., TDag "Oasabal, or plain of 

 the two branches or forks, cleared by Conmael, son of Eber, lay in 

 Oirgialla. 



Robe ["Rooba]. — The River Robe flows by a very circuitous course 

 in the south of the Co. Mayo, and, discharging itself into Lough Mask, 

 it ceases to be any further a river, as the surplus waters of that lake are 

 conveyed by a subterraneous passage into Lough Corrib. The names 

 of the Irish rivers are almost all of the feminine gender, and it is 

 curious that this should be masculine, or rather of the neuter gender, 

 as baile an "Rooba, the town of the Robe River, now Ballinrobe, in 

 the county of Mayo. The meaning of the word is subdued, lost, or 

 failed, signifying the river that was stopped, or failed, in its direct 

 course to the sea. 



Ross ["Rop]. — The River Ross, in the barony of Clare, county of 

 Galway. The word Ross, in Irish pop, means a promontory, as the 

 Rosses on the coast of Donegal. In the interior of the country it 

 signifies a wood or forest, as "Rop Comam, the wood of Saint Coman, 

 who lived in the 8th century, and from that wood the present county 

 of Roscommon derives its name. 



Rotjghty ["Ruaccac]. — The Rouglity River, in the barony of Glena- 

 rought, in the county of Kerry, falls into the River Kemare, abamn 

 cmn TTlapa, i. e., the river at the head of the sea. The Irish name of 

 the River Roughty is "Ruaccac, which means destructive, probably 

 on account of its great mountain floods. In an elegiac poem, composed 

 for Cormac Mac Carthy, of the county of Cork, who died in the year 



