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 ancient Book of Ballymote, preserved in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, also contains a description of the fair of Carman.

The complete obliteration of the ancient Carman, and the growth of another city, or a city with another name in its place, is accounted for by the fact that that part of Ireland was the stronghold and for many generations the home of the Danish invaders. Wexford is one of the few cities that the Danes have named in Ireland; and nearly all the other places bearing Danish names in Ireland are also on the east coast.

Considering how prominently the Danes figured in Irish history, this is a singular fact. Worsae (page 71) gives a table of 1373 Danish and Norwegian names in the middle and northern counties of England, names ending in thorpe, by, thwaite, with, toft, beck, nœs, ey, dale, force, fell, tarn, and haugh. Dr. Joyce's "Irish Names of Places," Vol. I, page 105, says:—

"We have in Ireland only a few Danish terminations, as ford, which occurs four times; ey, three times; ster, three times; and ore, which we find in one name. We have only fifteen Danish names in Ireland, almost all confined to one particular district. 'This,' says Dr Joyce, 'appears to me to