The townlands of Mothel (Clonea) Parish

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KILCLOONEY, Cill Chluana - "Church of the Sequestered Place"; the largest townland in Co. Waterford. Site of the eponymous Cill was recovered with difficulty. It was by side (east) of the main road to Dungarvan. Included in the townland is a great extent of mountain; the highest point (directly above the lake) is 2,597 feet. Area, 3,218 acres.
S.DD. (a) Mahonbeg and Mahonoge (O.M.), Machan Bheag and Machan Óg; two streams which have their source here.

Views of Mahon Falls

(b) Coumshinaun Lake (O.M.) - Com Seangán - "Pismire (infested) Hollow." Dr., Henebry,, however, told that the qualifying word = "Slender Ravines in the Cliffs." Area, 35 acres.

Coumshingaun Lake with Fauscoum, the highest point in the Comeraghs, directly above the lake. The cliffs behind the lake are 1,200 feet from top to bottom and are amoungst the highest inland cliffs in Western Europe

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(c) Cloch Mhór - "Great Stone"; a remarkable cloven boulder of immense size which stands by the side of the main road.
(d) Seana-Bhaile - "Old Village"; a sub-division of some 1,400 acres.
(e) Scairt - "Thicket"; another division of about 1,400 acres.
(f) Áth Ghearra - "Short Ford"; applied here to a stream.
(g) Cloch a' Chuit - "Cat's Rock."
(h) Clocha an Bhainne - "Milk Rocks."
i) Bán a' Bárdail - "Field of the Drake."
(j) An Staighre - "The Stairway"; a steep lane.
(k) Drom a' Mharcaigh - "The Rider's Ridge."
(l) Na Béilíní - "The Little Mouths."
(m) Carraig an Fhiolair - "Rock of the Eagle."
(n) Carraig Timcheall - "Enclosing Rock."
(o) Na Stáblaí - "The Stables."
(p) Carraig na nGabhar - "The Goat's Rock."
(q) Carraig na Sceartán - "Rock of the Ticks." Sceartán is a parasitical insect found commonly in Heather.
(r) Áth na Lárach Báine - "Ford of the White Mare."
(s) An Treinse - "The Trench."
(t) Príosún na nGabhar - "The Goat's Prison."

The burning of the Heather in Spring around Priosun na nGabhar
(u) Leaca Fhinn - "Fionn's Glenslope."
(v) Mannrach (mBannrach) Glas - "Green Cattle-Pen." (See (aa) infra).
(w) Com Foinse - "Hollow of the River-Source."
(x) Fás-Chom - "Wild-Growth Hollow."

Fascoum
(y) Béal a' Chuim - "Mouth of the Hollow."
(z) Móinteán na Caorach - "Bog of the Ewe."
(aa) Mannach Sheáin Mhaoil - "Bald John's Cattle-Pen."; the foundation of a large building which the informant stated was the former residence of a king!
(bb) Bárr & Com na Faille - " Cliff Summit" and "Cliff Hollow."
(cc) Tigh na gCrann - "House of (in) the Trees."
(dd) "Paradise." A dwelling which was a safe house during the War of Independence.
The five following are on the summit of the mountain (south to north):-
(ee) Móin a' Mhullaigh - "Bog on (of) the Summit."
(ff) An Caisleán - "The Castle"; a peak.
(gg) An Fhaill Dhíreach - "The Straight Cliff."
(hh) An Choiscéim - "The Step."
(ii) Beinse Mhór - "Great Bank."
(jj) Uisce Solais - Iske Solas - "The Water of Light."

Iske Solas - with Crotty's Rock just showing on the right

KIILLERGUILE, Coill ar gCoill - "A Terraced Wood." "Church of the Wood" as O'Donovan explains it. The author searched however in vain for trace of tradition of a church site. On the brow of a glen near the east boundary of the townland the author found, set in the ground, a basin-bearing boulder of bullán type. Area, 515 acres.
S.D. Sruth a' Bhruacháin - "Stream of the Green Bank."

KNOCKATURNORY, Cnoc a' Tórnóra - "The Turner's Hill." Area, 848 acres.
S.D. Bárra Maidín - "Maidin's Height" ; an early church site, with circular fence &c. on Kirby' farm. Maiden, probably - Mo-Íde-Án - "My Little Ita's."

MONMINANE, Móin Mionáin - "Bog of the Jacksnipe." Rev. Matthias Casey, who was born here a century and a half ago (c.1750), used to call the place Cúlóg Fhinghín - ("Fingin's Little Corner").
"Nomanane" (D.S.R.).

MOTHEL, Maothail - "Soft Spongy Land." Area, 259 acres.
"Methallia" Calendar of the Stage Papers - 1253. "Mochel" (Do. - 1256).
S.DD. (a) Cloghnacoirmce (O.M.), Cloch na Comairce - "Stone of Sanctuary"; a termon- stone, in form a squared sandstone pillar, four feet high, which stands by the roadside and is inscribed on its face with ormnamental cross. In a fence close by the writer found a block of hard slate inscribed with cup and circle designs; this is now in University College, Cork.
(b) Bannsa - "Manse"; the Glebe House at Mothel, now residence of the Parish Priest.(In 1907)

MUNSBURROW, Munarláirge (Muin-na-Láirge). Meaning uncertain; O'Donovan translates it "Hill of the Shins" (Ordnance Survey Field Books - Waterford), while Fleming renders it "Ridge of the River Forks" ("Gaelic Journal," Vol. II., p. 163.), an states that, though pronounced as above, it is written Muin na Láirge. The origin of the Anglicised name I have failed to trace; probably affectation accounts entirely for it. A branch of the Power family was established here, a century since, there still survives some twenty acres of orchard and schrubbery which had been attached to the "great house." Area, 870 acres.
"Monlarg" (Tax. Pope Nicholas).
S.DD. (a) Pairc a' Tighe Mhóir - "Field of the Great House"; site of the ancient mansion house of the Powers of Monerlargy.
(b) Sean Bhaile - "Old Village."
(c) "The Couse" (Cabhas - "Stepping Stones") - crossing place (Clodaigh River) at the South-West point of the townland.

OLD GRANGE, Seana Ghráinseach - "Old Monastic Out-Farm"; it pertained to the Augustinian Priory of Mothel. Area, 572 acres.
"Ould Grange" (D.S.R.)

ROSS, Ros - "Shrubbery." Area, 1,024 acres.
"Rosse" (D.S.R.).
S.DD. (a) Crotty's Lough (O.M.). This is the comparatively recent name derived from a well remembered outlaw, William Crotty, who is said to have had for his lair, an almost inaccessible cave in a stoll or cliff overlooking the lake. Crotty was hanged in Waterford in 1742 yet his memory is still a vivid thing in Power's Country. See under Coolnaligady supra. The Irish name for the lake is Com a' Ghaire - "Laughing Hollow", or Loch a' Stoola - Lake of the Cliff." Stolla seems to signify, primarily, a pillar or standing stone and, in a seconary sense, a cliff or mountain pinnacle as in the present instance.

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(b) Douglas River (O.M.), Dubh Ghlaise - "Black Stream"; a name scarcely known locally.
(c) Na Scráidíní - "The Little Villages" now two or three small fields where stood the sráidín
(d) Saileachán - "Place of the Willows."
(e) Páirc na Samhailte - "Field of the Apparition (Ghost)"; there is a lios in this field.
(f) Bearna Réamoinn - "Raymond's Gap."
(g) Cillín - "Ancient Church Site"; on Phelan's farm. The area was square and a half acre in extent.
(h) Cnocán Ruadh - "Little Red Hill."
(i) Drom a' Mharcaigh - "Ridge of the Rider."
(j) An Bréagán Beag - "The Little Man-Simulating Cairn (or Pillar-Stone)."
(k) An Bréagán Mór - "The Large Man-Simulating Pillar-Stone."
(l) Tuinn a' Ghabhair - "The Goat's Swamp."

SHANKILL, Seana Cuill - "Old Hazel Place." Area, 455 acres.

WHITESTOWN, Baile na Fhaoitigh - "Whites' Homestead." Compare with Baile na bhFaoiteach ("Whites' Hometead") similarly Anglicised. Area (in two divisions), 1,194 acres.
"Little Whitestowne als Balinwytybeg" (Inq. Jac. I.).
S.DD. (a) Baile an Fhaoitigh Beag "Little Whitestown"; now Whitestown East.
(b) Faithchín na bTri gCoinne - "Little Three-Cornered Hurling (or Dancing) Green"; at the meeting place of the three town-lands.

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