VI ANTRIM A5D DOWN GLOSSARY. as 'Mountainy people,' 'Baok of the hill folk/ 'Bog-trotters/ etc* There they still remain, though many of the humbler classes have found permanent homes in the towns/' In Down, the extensive Baronies of Monme and Lecale, and the Lordship of Kewry, changed the lords of the soil, but retained the population. As bearing upon the dialect of the district it is interesting to enquire as to the numbers and the proportions in which these various nationalities of English, Scotch, and Irish now occupy the district. A valuable series, of articles from the pen of the Eev. Canon Hume on these subjects was published in the Ulster Journal of Arehceology, The following papers were some of those which appeared : — Origin and Characteristics of the People of Down and Antrim, in nine chapters, Ulster Journal, i. 9j i. 120; i. 246. Topo- graphical Map, Physical Map, and Speed's Map of 1610. Ethnology of the Two Counties, iy. 154. Ethnological Map. The Elements of Population, Illustrated by the Statistics of Eeligious Belief, in six chapters, yii. 116. Ecclesiastical Map, constructed from the Creed Census of 1834. Surnames in the County of Antrim, in five sections, v. 323. Unique Coloured Map. Surnames in the County of Down, in five sections, vi. 77. Unique Coloured Map. The Irish Dialect of the English Language, vi. 47. A Dialogue in the Ulster Dialect, vi 40. The county electoral rolls afford a convenient way of ascertaining the leading names, and hence, pretty closely^ the nationalities of the inhabitants. With this view the roll of the Co. of Antrim has been examined by the Eev. Edmund McClure, A.M., and the results made known in a paper read before the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club in January, 1874. The title of the paper is, 'The Surnames of the Inhabitants of the Co. of Antrim and their Indications.' The following extract sums up one branch of the subject : — In the 1357 names of the Boll I find that 565 are Lowland Scotch, 18 of which are Noiman names. There are 234 Highland
