PARISH OF TEMPLEMORE. 
Colgan says that there was a monastery anciently in this townland, the ruins of which were 
scarcely visible in his time [1647] ( Tr . Thau. p. 495, col. 1.) Another branch of the Mac Ra- 
vertys, who were the keepers of the Caah of St. Columbkille, which has been described by Sir 
William Betham in his Antiquarian Researches (vol. 1.) gave name to Baile Meg-Rabhartaich, 
in the barony of Tirhugh. 
5. Bally nay alliagli: called Ballynecalliagh, and Ballygalliagh, in the Inquisitions, and 
Ballynagalliagh by Sampson. The meaning is unquestionably baile na 5 -cailleac, the town of 
the nuns, as it appears from the inquisition already referred to, that the jurors did, “ upon their 
oaths say and present that there was a nunnery on the south side of the saide cittie, in the Island 
of Derry, with a small garden or plot of ground, called Garnegalliagh, jjapoa na ^cailleac, the 
garden of the nuns , “ and a quarter of land called Ballygalliagh, to the said nunnery belonging, 
and that the half quarter of land called Rosnagalliagh, lying on O’Kane’s side, was parcell of the 
possessions of the said nunnery.” Cailleac is the Irish word to express an old woman who has 
borne no children, and also a nun. Cormac, Archbishop of Cashel, in the tenth century, derives 
it from the verb call, to keep, and says that it was a name for an old woman who keeps the 
house. Cailleac, when it signifies a nun, is derived from caille, a veil or cover, q. d. the 
veiled : this rests on the authority of a very old Life of Saint Bridget. This townland has been 
in the possession of the Donegal family since 1620, but how it was acquired does not appear from 
the Inquisitions. 
6 . Ballynagard, called Ballenegarde, Ballinnegord, and Bally nag ar die, in the Ulster In¬ 
quisitions ; Ballynagard on Sampson’s map ; and Ballymagard in his memoir ; the latter has 
also by corruption become the popular name. The signification is doubtlessly baile na gapoa, 
the town of the guard or garrison: thus Stranagard, the name of a townland in Desert- 
martin, is known to have its origin from a guard-house, a part of one wall of which still remains. 
This townland was, in 1609, in the possession of “ Captain Henry Harte,” whose heir still re¬ 
tains it. 
7. Ballynashallog : called in the Inquisitions Gortneshalyg, and Corneshaglagh, and on 
Sampson’s map Ballynashannagh. The name is evidently 6 aile na pealj, the town of the 
chaces or hunting, a name synonymous with Huntingdon in England. Gortneshalyg, written 
Corneshalgagh in all probability by a mistake of the transcriber of the original roll (7 Jac. I.) 
is 55°p c na pea%, the field of hunting. The word ^opc is now understood in the north of 
Ireland to signify a glebe, but this meaning is not recognized by any Irish writers ; Keating 
used the word to signify a tilled field, and O’Sullevan Beare translates it simply ager, and 
Colgan proedium. It is sometimes written ?>apc, and traceable to the same parent language with 
the English garden, and the German garten. 
8 . Cloughglass this name does not appear in the Inquisitions. In the Down survey the town- 
land immediately to the north of Edenballymore, and evidently occupying the situation of this is 
called Knocklall. Cloughglass, in Irish cloc slap, means green stone. Its ancient proprietor has not 
been discovered, it is probably a modern subdivison of some more extensive denomination. 
9. Coshquin, called in the Inquisitions Costquoyne, and Coskeyne. The orthography would 
at first sight appear obscure; but to a person acquainted with the general nomenclature of Ireland 
it will not appear inexplicable. A barony in the county of Waterford bears the name of Coip bpi joe, 
Coshbride, i. e. along the Bride, from its stretching along the banks of a river of that name, and 
another barony in the county of Limerick has derived the appellation of Coshma, in Irish Coip 
lTlaijje, from its lying along the river Maig. We find also in the county of Antrim the names of 
Cushindun and Cushindalt, derived from two rivers anciently, but not at present, called Dun 
and Dali. Now it seems highly probable that the stream that flows by this townland into Lough 
Swilly was anciently called caotn, or the beautiful, ( amcena, Colgan), and that the townland re¬ 
ceived the appellation of coip caoine, from its situation on its banks, caom would be a very 
appropriate Irish name for a stream, as such appellations are constantly given to them ; for exam¬ 
ple finn, white, or bright ; glan, and its diminutive glanog, clean; dubh, black; fnglass, 
the bright-green, &c. Sampson explains Cosquin as rabbit’s-foot; but the Irish word which sig¬ 
nifies rabbit is not quin, but coinin. 
the act of Parliament, ‘4th Anne, Creevagh. It is an Anglicizing of the Irish word CpaoBac, 
which literally means bushy, but which is constantly used in a topographical sense to signify 
bushy or shrubby land. 
This townland was a portion of the possessions of the abbey of Derry, but in 1609,^ it was 
the occupation of Denis O’Dery, who was probably the Erencich. This family, called in Irish 
O’tDaijjpe, which is now Anglicized Deery, was a distinguished branch of the Kinel-Owen, and 
for many centuries hereditary Erenachs of half the church lands of the monastery of Deiry. 
11. Creggan: called Craggin in the Inquisitions, and Craggabell in the Down Survey— 
sheet 5 of Londonderry. Cpeajan means rocky ground. 
