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26 <strong>Irish</strong> Local Names <strong>explained</strong>.<br />

Carrigeen; little I'oek ; Carrrigeens; little rocks.<br />

Carrignavar in Cork ; see page 3.<br />

Carrigogunnell near the Shannon in Limerick; Carraig-<br />

O-gCoirmell, F. M., the rock of the O'Counells.<br />

Carrigroe ; red rock.<br />

Carrow; a quarter (of land). See Carhoo.<br />

Carroward; high quarter-land.<br />

Carrowbane, Carrowbaun ; white quarter-land.<br />

Carrowbeg; little quarter-land.<br />

Carrowcrin ; the quarter-land of the tree {crann).<br />

Carrowduff; black quarter-land.<br />

CarrowgarrifF, Carrowgarve ; rough quarter (garbh,<br />

rough).<br />

Carrowkeel ; narrow quarter {cael, narrow).<br />

Carrownianagh ; middle quarter-land.<br />

Carrowmore; great quarter-land.<br />

Carrownaglogh ; the quarter of the stones {dock).<br />

Carrownamaddoo, Carrownamaddra, Carrownamaddy<br />

the quarter of the dogs (madadh, and madradh).<br />

Carrowntober ; the quarter-land of the well {tohar).<br />

grey quarter {riahhach).<br />

Carrowreagh, Carrowrevagh ;<br />

Carrowroe ; red quarter-land.<br />

Cartron ;<br />

of land,<br />

an Anglo-Norman word, meaning a quarter<br />

"^ashel : all the places of this name, including Cashel in<br />

Tipperary, were so called from a ca/sm^ [cashel] or<br />

circular stone fort.<br />

Cashen river; casdn a path; for this river was, as it<br />

were, the high road into Kerry.<br />

Cashlan ; Caislen, a castle.<br />

Castlebane, Castlebaun ; white castle.<br />

Castlebar in Mayo ; shortened from Castle-Barry ; for it<br />

belonged to the Earrys after the English invasion.<br />

Castlecomer ; the castle of the river-confluence {comar).<br />

Castleconnell near Limerick : see page 3.<br />

Castledermot in Kildare. The old name was Disertdermot,<br />

Diarmad's desert or hermitage, from Diarmad<br />

son of the king of Ulidia, who founded a monastery<br />

there about A. D. 800. The present form of the<br />

name is derived from a castle built there by AValter<br />

de Eiddlesford in the time of Strongbow.

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