“‘Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this!’ And some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to Mile- End Green. ‘Why, it is harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Mac Donnel, or Galasp.’ These rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek That would have made Quintillian stare and gasp.” Colkitto’s real name was Alexander Mac Donnell, a relative of the Earl of Antrim. (iii.) _Inis-locha-Burrann_ was situated in the parish of Ballintoy; the lake is now drained, and the place known by the name of Loughavarra.[173] In 1541 the eastern crannog in the lake of Glencar, on the borders of Sligo and Leitrim, was taken by one sept of the O’Rourkes from another. Shortly afterwards the dispossessed proprietor attempted to set fire to the “fortress,” but was discovered, pursued by boats, taken prisoner, and hanged. In the summer of 1540, O’Donnell besieged the crannog of _Loch Betha_, now Lough Veagh, county Donegal. He encamped round the lake shores, but failed to take the stronghold. In the autumn he, however, defeated his opponents, and “broke up and completely demolished the crannog.” Previous mention is made of it as the scene of strife in the year 1524, when Eoghan O’Donnell took Niall O’Donnell’s “town” (_i.e._ the crannog of Loch Betha); whilst in 1257 O’Donnell was confined to this crannog during twelve months from wounds received in a battle near Sligo. In 1512 the crannog of Mac Gauran was taken by Mac Guire. In 1495 Mac Gauran, a chief of Tallaghaw, in the present county Cavan, was drowned in _Loch Crannoige_ of _Coill-an-mhuilinn_ (_i. e._ Lake Crannog of the Wood of the Mill), now Ballywillen Lough. In 1477 a violent tempest swept over Ireland which did great damage, especially to crannogs. Had these structures not been very numerous, the chroniclers would scarcely have drawn special attention to the havoc thus wrought. In 1455 Torlogh Mac Guire took and plundered the crannog of Mac Clancy on Lough Melvin, county Leitrim. In 1452 O’Hanley was murdered by his own tribe in the crannog of _Loch-Leisi_ (stated by O’Donovan to be now called Muckenagh Lough), in the parish of Kilmeam, county Roscommon; whilst in 1246 it is of record that O’Conor made his escape when a prisoner from the same lake-dwelling, after drowning his guards. In 1368 an O’Conor was taken prisoner in the crannog of _Ardakillen_, parish of Killukin, county Roscommon, and in 1388 another O’Conor burned this crannog and the Island of _Loch-Cairgin_ (_i. e._ Cargin’s Lough[174]), near Tulsk in the same county. In 1365 Brian Mac Mahon, chief of Oriel, invited his father-in-law to a banquet, where he made him prisoner, and “put him in a lake to conceal him”[175]--evidently meaning his confinement in a crannog--for Mac Geoghegan states that the captive was committed “to a strong place on a lough to be kept.” In 1247 Mac Costello took and garrisoned the crannog of _Cloonloch_ (now Lough Clean), county Leitrim, and expelled