a Welsh family of Yoes, Joas, or Shoyes, which held that land from the O'Flaherties (formerly part of Partry-an-tslevy", which extended from St. Patrick's Hill in the Owles, to Lough Orbsen), hath the barony of Balynahinsy, Koelshaly Roe, and the Owles on the west of it, and by a high ridge of mountaines called Formna-mor, is divided on the north from the same Owles. From that mountain, Bruin River, falling into Lough Measg, separates Partry mountain in the barony of Kera, from Kilbridy' townland, the north side of Lough Measg,

(Partry) lands, xii myles long and viii broad. M. Thomas and Mc. Tybod chief in the same;" and it then enumerates the following "Gent. and their castles, viz., Mac Thomas, Castlekirke; Murrogh ne dow, Ballynonagh; Mc. Envile, Ballenesleo; Abbè Mc. Envile, Cloynlaghell; Richard Mc. Moyler Joy, Castlenew."Titus, B. xiii. fo. 399. See the Additional Notes for further particulars of Joyce Country and the Shoyes.

Partry-an-tslevy.-Parτraize an -pleibe, Partrigia de monte. See Harris's Ware, vol. ii. p. 53. In this district of Partry of the mountain, the Joyces settled under the O'Flaherties in the thirteenth century; and here, as we are told in the Indenture of Composition, A. D. 1585, the O'Flaherties, at some former time, got "eighteen quarters of land in Ballynenagh (Baile Inneonagh), from some of the Boorks, as is said, for an Ericke."-See Appendix. Before the O'Flaherties, or their tributaries the Joyces, settled here, O'Cadain, O'Kyne; O'Donċuide, anglicized Dorcey and Darcey; and O'Gormog, O'Gormog,

were the ancient chiefs of Partry of the Mountain. St. Patrick's Hill.—A remarkable conical mountain (within view of which this is written) in the barony of Murrisk and county of Mayo; called in Irish Cpuac Pháopaic, i. e. the "rick" (here pronounced reek) or "stack" of Patrick; and Cpuacan aigli, translated by Colgan in Trias Thaum. p. 138, col. I, "Mons Aquila," Mounteagle.

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Kilbridy.-Kilbride, so called from the chapel of St. Bridget, mentioned immediately after. By letters patent of King James I., dated 30th May, A. D. 1619, Rot. Pat. an. 16o. pars 2, numerous lands in this half barony of Ross, were granted to Edward Grana Joyce, of Kilbride, Gent., and to several others of the clan. This grant, although many other persons were included in it, may yet be considered the great charter of the Joyces, after the Indenture of Composition, A. D. 1585, contained in the Appendix I. Of the other places mentioned in the above paragraph, the parish of Balynchala, is now called Ballinacalla, or Ballincholla, Baile

Measg, in the half barony of Rosse, and yet belonging to the parish of Balynchala on the south side. In Kilbridy there is a chappell and well dedicated to St. Bridget. There is on the south of it an arm of Lough Measg, which shoots into the countrey westward about four miles to Glenntre[s]ky. On the west of Kilbridy townland is Lough-na-fohy Lake, out of which the river of Gairge comes into that arme of Lough Measg.

Within that arm of Lough Measg is the Earl's Island', where Edmond Burk*, second son of Richard the Red Earl of Ulster, Anno D. 1338, was put to death; which should be therefore rather called

an Chala, the townland of the Callow, anciently Cala Coca mearga. The chapel dedicated to St. Bridget is now in ruins. It gave name to the townland of Kilbride, on which it stands. The well, called Cró brigoe, is near it; and also another "holy" well called Tobar Mhuine. Glenntresky, Gleann Treisge, is named Glantrague in Larkin's map of the county of Galway. Lough na fohy, Coć na Feozaio, is now called Lough na feoy, and is in the parish of Ross. Gairge, Gainge, river is now called the Finney.

i The Earl's Island.-It is still known by the same name, Oileán an Iarla. It lies in that arm of Lough Mask which runs up to Toorluggach, in the parish of Ross.

* Edmond Burk.-i. e. De Burgo, De Burgh, Bourke, Burke, but seldom Burk, as written by our author. The Earl of Clanricarde, in the " Pedigree of De Burgh" before referred to, p. 39, note, has omitted the above historical fact of

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the murder of this unfortunate nobleman. In Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, the manner in which it was perpetrated is told correctly enough; but, as often occurs in that work, an error is committed by stating, that "the stone was fixed about his neck by his kinsman, Edward Bourk MacWilliam."-See vol. i. p. 121. By this "kinsman" was probably meant Sir Edmond Albanach, for whom see p. 39, note; but that he did not immediately perpetrate the deed, appears from the above narrative, which carries with it all the marks of truth. I find no trace on record of any commission appointing this Edmond Burke, conjointly with the Archbishop of Tuam, to the government of Connaught, as mentioned by our author; but many of our records have been lost since their time. For further particulars of him, and his father, the Red Earl, and also of the family of Nolan, for many years located at Balinrobe mentioned above, see the Additional Notes.

the Earl's Son's Island. But the male line of that house being, all to him, extinct, most likely he was reputed and commonly called Earl of Ulster; there being but one girle, then about seven years old, his nephew William, Earl of Ulster's daughter, after Dutchess of Clarence, apparent heir generall. During whose nonage, Edmond was joyned in commission with Malachias, Arch-Bishoppe of Tuam, for the government of Connaught; until he was seized upon by Sir William Bourk, aforementioned, his sons, on Low Sunday, the 19th of Aprill, in the Fryer's house of Balinrobe; Roger de Flet, Seneschall of Connaught, and Nicholas Lienot', and other nobles of his company, being killed on the place. He was that night carried to Lough Measg Castle, the next night to BallyndeonaghTM Castle, and the third night to that island on Lough Measg; whither the ArchBishope of Tuam came to bring him and his kinsmen to a reconciliation and as they were on points of agreements, the villains who had the custody of his body, a certain family of the Stantons", dispairing

1 Lienot.-Mac Firbis, in his account of the Welsh tribes contained in the Book of Hy Fiachrach, states that the Lienots, or Lynotts, a family long settled in Tirawly in Mayo, came to Ireland with the descendants or followers of the Red Earl of Ulster: "Zionóidiż do żeaċt i n-Erinn le slioct an lapla púaio." That part of the book alluded to concludes with the narrative of a barbarous occurrence which took place between the Barretts of Tirawly and those Lynotts, which strongly marks the ferocity of these Welsh adventurers, as well as the uncivilized state of the times. For barbarity similar to that there recorded, see Wynne's History of

Wales, book vi.

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Ballyndeonagh.-Called Ballynonagh in the document of A. D. 1586, before quoted, p. 44, note . This castle still retains its ancient name. It stands, in ruins, on the townland of Cappagh na gapple, alias Petersburgh, near the demesne of Ross.

n The Stantons.-Among the "Englyshe greate rebelles of Connaught," A. D. 1515, were "Syr Myles Stauntons sonnes," i. e. his descendants.-State Papers, vol. ii. part iii., p. 26. A branch of this family of Staunton, in Irish Stondun, settled in Mayo County, under the "Red Earl;" chiefly in the territory afterwards called the barony

pairing their own safety if he were set at liberty, miserably turned him into a bag, and cast him out of the island into the lake, with stones tyed to the bag; for which fact they were called Clan Ulcin ever since. Hence followed great combustions and wars in Connaught after. Of this Edmond and his wife Slany, daughter of Tordellvac O'Bryan, L. of Tuomond, lineally descended the lords of Castleconnell and Bretas, with the rest of the county of Limerick Burks.

From that arm of Lough Measg, towards Cong" and Lough Orbsen, for three miles in length, and three half miles breadth, there is

of Crossbohine, or Clanmorris. After the murder of Edmond Burke, most of them changed their name to M'Evilly, Mac a mhilío, the son of the knight. In A. D. 1585, "Myly M. Evily of Kinturk, otherwise Mc. Evilly," was "chief of his name." See the Mayo Indenture of Composition, in Appendix, p. 331. Several of the M'Evillys are now beginning to re-assume the original name. There are at present in Mayo several families of the name of Culkin, who may be descended from the Clan Ulcin branch of the Stauntons mentioned above; but this is mere conjec

good destruction of the English of Connought, and of their own family of Burk's: which did enable Terlogh O'Connor to take the power and superiority of Connought, and banished Edmond Mr. William Burk from out of all Connought, destroyed the spirituall and temporall lands of all the West parts of Connought. Edmond Burke assembled a fleet of shipps, barkes and boats; betook himself with them to the islands of the seas, a long time, in exile." This last passage explains a subsequent one in the Additional Notes, which states, that this Edmond was twenty-two years in Scotland; whence he was called Albanach, or the Scot.

P Cong. See p. 7, note ". And for further historical notices of this ancient place, see the Annals of the Four Masters at the years 1114, 27, 28, 37, 50, 68; 1201, 23, 25, 26, 45, 47; 1590, 98. Pococke, the traveller, has stated, that the seat of Mr. Macnamara, near Cong, was the most delightfully situated place he saw in the course of his extensive travels.

good arable land; in which line, on the west bank of Lough Measg, lies Ballyndeonagh Castle and Rosse, whence the half barony is named; and where the parish church of Ross parish stands, whereof St. Brendan' is patron, whose feast is the 16th day of May. Ross parish reaches from the west side of Lough Measg, and by the foresaid arm thereof, to the western borders of the half barony; but between it and Lough Orbsen part of the parish of Cong runs3, from the river of Cong on the east of it, Lough Orbsen and Moy-Cullin barony on the south, to Imaire-an-Linain', as far on the west as the parish of Ross goes.

This river of Cong is the confluent of divers waters, which springing under ground from the south side of Lough Measg, are divided into two rivers which enter into the earth again, till they breake out in one, near the castle and abbey of Cong; and about a quarter of a mile thence, in a deep, narrow, and smooth streame", exonerates itself into Lough Orbsen, having the barony of Kilmain in the isthmus between it and Lough Measg, and on the east of it, and that part of Cong parish in the half barony of Ross on the west. It affords good store of salmon, trouts, and eels. From

a Parish church.-The west gable and part of the north and south walls of this church are ancient; the remainder of the building is modern.

* St. Brendan.—According to the Four Masters, St. Brendan died on 16th May, A. D. 576. With them the Annals of Ulster agree; vide Doctor O'Conor's Edition, In Scriptor. Rerum Hib., tom. iii. p. 171. Tigernagh correctly states it at A. D. 577. Id. tom. ii. p. 153, where see also Doctor O'Conor's note thereon (77).

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description here, to add, that the portion of the parish of Cong which lies in the county of Galway, extends along the north side of Lough Corrib, from the river of Cong to the head of the lake.

t Imaire-an-Linain.-lomaipe an Tíonán, i. e. the ridge of Leenane, the boundary of Joyce country. See this place described further on by our author.

u Streame. On the shore, east of where this stream flows into the lake, the writer found Iceland, or double refracting spar, in great quantity.