PARISH OF TEMPLExMORE. 
etymologist, “its stones are larger than those of the quern; or from mol-onn, i. e. the shaft and 
the stone, because these are the two things called the mill, and from mel-lin, i. e. mel, to "'rind, 
and linn, the pond, “ because it grinds by means of the pond.” These derivations are obviously 
visionary, but they are curious, as evidences of the existence of watermills in Ireland, previously 
to the year 908, when the author of the Glossary was killed. In the same Glossary mention is 
made of cocao . 1 . aipnem ppip a melai^cep epna “ a mill stone by which barley is ground.” 
Cuan O’Lochain, chief poet and lawgiver of Ireland, whose death is recorded in the Annals 
of Tighearnach, at the year 1024, states in his poem on the ruins then existing at Tarah —that 
the monarch Cormac, the son of Art, had a beautiful Cumal [Bond-maid,] by name Ciarnad , 
who was obliged to grind a certain quantity every day with a quern; but that the king, 
observing her beauty, took her into his house, and sent across the sea for a millwright (cuj paep 
muillino cap mop cuino), who constructed a mill on the stream of Nith, which flows from 
the fountain of Neamhnach to the N. E. of Tarah. This Irish custom of women grinding at the 
quern, will bring to the recollection of the reader the words of Job, (chap. 31, v. 10.) Tigh¬ 
earnach, under the year 651, records that the two sons of Blamac, the son of Hugh Slaine, 
monarch of Ireland, were killed in Muillenn Maeloran in a fray which took place between them 
and the Miller Maeloran. 
Several other mills also are mentioned in various fragments of Irish history, such as St. 
Fechin’s mill at Fore in Meath ; St. Kiaran’s at Clonmacnoise, St. Lucherin’s, &c.; and it is record¬ 
ed in the annals of the Four Masters, that the celebrated upright stone in east Meath called 
lia ailbe fell in 998, and that Malachy, king of Ireland, made four mill stones of it. 
There are also still preserved among the MSS. of Trinity College, (class E. tab. 3, No. 5,) 
some ancient Irish law's relating to the regulation of mills. 
Seeing then that there is every reason to believe that there were several mills in Ireland 
at a very ancient period, it is rational to conclude that this townland derived its name from an an¬ 
cient mill, as the locality is adapted for one, and as the ruins of a modern mill are still existing 
in it, and that the real meaning is Enna’s Mill, or perhaps the Mill of Tir-Enna, the territory in 
which it lay. 
It appears from the Inquisition of the 7th James I., that this townland was then in the 
occupation of John Woods. 
17. Penny burn. —This townland does not occur in the Inquisitions, nor in the charter of 
Derry. It must have been a name imposed by the English colony, as it is not of Irish origin. 
In the Teutonic dialects, according to Richard Verstegan, burn or bourne, signifies a stream. 
It has been added by the Scotch settlers to the names of several small rivers in the north of 
Ireland, s Burndale, the modern name of the celebrated river in Donegal called Dailia, in the 
lives of Columbkille and Gaoil by the Four Masters. 
18. Shantallow : this townland does not occur in the Inquisitions or any other ancient docu¬ 
ment hitherto discovered. The meaning of the name is evidently Sean calarh, old land ; but 
why it originally received such an appellation, would be now difficult to ascertain. Perhaps land 
a long time tilled might be so called, in contradistinction to land lately reclaimed. 
19. Sheriff's Mountain. This townland, wdiich does not appear in the Inquisitions, 
appears to be a sub-denomination of some other townland ; most probably of Ballymagrorty. 
20. Springhill. This townland does not appear in the Inquisitions, and appears, also, 
to be a sub-denomination of Ballymagrorty. 
21. Springtown. This townland, which does not appear in the Inquisitions, must be a 
sub-denomination of Ballymagrorty or Shantallow. 
22 . Termonbacca. Called in the Inquisition of the 45th Elizabeth, Termonbackagh ; 
in that of the 7th James I., Termonbaccoe; in the act of parliament of the 4th Anne, 
Termonbacco ; and by Sampson incorrectly Tirmonbacca. 
The meaning is evidently Ceapmann 6acai j, i. e. the termon of the cripple. 
Usher translates tearmann by the Latin asylum, and thinks that the Irish borrowed this 
word, as well as many others, from the Latin terminus, because such privileged places were 
commonly designated by special marks and bounds. Termons indeed, (he adds) were free 
land, but free from all claim of temporal lords, not of the church, being truly territoria ec- 
clesiastica, Some have thought that Termon was the same as terra monachorum , or, in 
French terre moine, the land of monks. But this derivation is not tenable, nor is it derived 
from terra immunis, free land ; although it is true that termons were sometimes free from tribute, 
they were not so always, for Red Hugh O’Donnell compelled the termon of Derry to render him 
18 beeves a year in time of war, and the termon of Kilmacrenan, 24 methers of butter, and 
24 methers of meal, once every quarter of a year. 
There is a curious tract among the Lambeth MSS. written about the year 1605, which gives 
a very ingenious explanation of this word; as it has not been published, the following extract 
will be novel, as well as interesting:—“The tenents of the church lands, are called Eir- 
