XII. Suggestions for Improvement, and means for meliorating the condition of the People.

The inhabitants of Carne have ever been remarkable for living so comfortably and happy, that they stand in need of very little assistance in this respect. They might, however, be rendered more wealthy, if a small quay was built either at the Creek of Nethertown, or that of Carna, that might afford protection and safety to the small craft used in their lobster and herring fisheries.

APPENDIX.

No. 1.

VALUE OF STOCK, &c.

The value of the stock of this parish is inconsiderable, excepting that of pigs, which of late years must have produced not less than three hundred pounds per annum, exclusive of supplying the table of the farmer. The annual produce of the parish may be fairly estimated at five thousand pounds.

No. 2.

TOWNLANDS IN CARNE, &c.

DERIVATION.

Rock-foot, from 'Bun,' a sole, bottom, foundation, and carraig,' a rock.

Sloping-town, from Baile,' a town, or townland, and faoin,' sloping.

Rough-town, or coarse townland, from ‘garbh,' rough, and Baile,' a town.

Strand-town.

The cripple's road, from Ball,' an old word for Bealach,' a way, and' Losc,' a cripple. Obvious.

Milk-stock, from 'Ban,' a stock, root, foundation, and 'Airge,' genitive case of' Arg,' milk. Naked-gap, from Bearna,' a gap, and 'mbaoil,' or as pronounced,' weel,' bald, naked. Stormtown, from Baile,' a town, and 'Sion," pronounced "Sheen,' storm, tempest.

Not ascertained.

Chour,

Not ascertained.

No. VI.

PARISH OF

ERRIGALL-KEROGE,

(Diocese of Armagh, and County of Tyrone.)

BY THE REV. JOHN GROVES.

I. Name of the Parish, Situation, Extent, &c.

IN the grant of the advowson of this parish, by Name. King James I., to Sir Thomas Ridgeway, who was then Treasurer at War for Ireland, and afterwards Lord Londonderry, the name is spelled, Errigall-keroge. It has since been also called Ballinasaggart, from the name of the townland in which the present church stands. By either of these names it is always known among the gentlemen and clergy of the country, but the farmers and country people universally call it Errigall-kieran, and really greater appearance of propriety is in their favour. Tradition says, that the former church, the ruins of which yet remain, was built by St. Kieran; while the other epithet, Keroge, seems to have no relation to any thing ecclesiastical; it signifies that species of beetle which is vulgarly called a black clock. But the authority of a record ought to be preferred to tradition, however specious. The former part of the name is the

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