Irish local names explained

Irish Local Names explained. 69
Lj-re; Ladhar [Lyre], a fork formed by rivers or glens.
See Lear.
Mace ; Mas [Mauce], the thigh, a long low hill.
Mackan, Mackanagh, Ma(;knagh, Mackney ; a place
producing parsnips (meacan, a parsnip).
Macosquia in Derry; corrupted from Magh-Cosgrain
[Macosgran], F. IT., Cosgraii's plain.
Maghera; Machaire, a plain. Maghera in Down and
Maghera in Derry, are both contracted from Machaireratha
[Maghera-raha], the plain of the fort.
Magherabeg; little plain.
Magheraboy; yellow plain.
Magheracloone ; the plain of the cloon or meadow.
Magheraculmoney ; the plain of the back (cid) of the
shrubbery.
Maghcradrool in Down ; Machaire-eadargliahhal [Maghera-
addrool], the plain between the (river) forks
{eadar, between; and gabhal). See Addergoole.
Magherahamlet in Down; the plain of the Tamlaght or
plague monument. See Tallaght.
middle plain {meadhonach),
great plain.
grey plain (riabhach).
Magheramenagh ;
Magheramore ;
Magherareagh ;
Maghery ; a form of Maghera, a plain.
Magunihy, barony of, in Kerry ; Magh-gCoincinne
[Magunkinny], F. M., the plain of the O'Conkins.
Mahee island in Strangford Lough ; the island of St.
3Iochaei [Mohee], bishop, a disciple of St. Patrick,
and the founder of Nendrum.
Maigue, a river in Limerick ; called J/fl/^A in the annals,
i. e., the river of the plain.
Mallow in Cork ; called in the Annals Magh-Ealla
[Moyallo], the plain of the river Alio, which was
anciently the name of that part of the Blackwater
flowing by the town. See Duhallow.
Manulla in Mayo ; Magh-Fhio7inalbha [Mah-Innalva],
Hy. F., Finalva's plain.
Massareene in Antrim; Mds-a^ -rioghna
the queen's hill.
[Massareena],
Maul ; Meall, a lump, a hillock.
Maum Madhm [Maum], a high mountain pass.
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