Sil Anmchadha.—In latter ages the territory of this tribe was co-extensive with the barony of Longford, in the county of Galway, and the parish of Lusmagh, in the King's County, on the east side of the Shannon, which parish formerly formed a portion of the county of Galway, as we learn by an inquisition, preserved in the Rolls Office, Dublin, taken at Galway, on the 11th of August, 1607, in which the boundaries of the county of Galway, on this side, are thus described:— 'The boundes or meares of the countie of Galwiae begynieth beyond the River of Sheanon eastwarde at the marishe of Meanagh Keogh, which divideth the great woods of Killie Corri, whereof the woods westward of the said marishe are included within the bounds of the county of Galwaie, and the woods eastward of the marishes are of the King's County, and so bounding forward to the River of Brosnagh and retaynning the course of the streame as that runneth, that falleth into the River of Sheanon, and including the island of Inchenegal and Inishtymone that extendeth forwarde by east to the island of Inishfadda, as the course of the streame runneth from thence including the island of Portklyely it goeth directly to Dirremacegane, and including the island of Illanmore and Inishcaldry that runneth through Loughdirgirt, and so to the river Boye and holding that river against the stream to Loghetory' [now Loughatorig, i. e. Lake of the boundary]. This inquisition, after describing the meres of the county of Galway all round, thus concludes at the point whence it set out with the description:—and so reteyning the stream that goeth under the middle arch of the middle bridge of Balinesloy, and from thence with the course of the streame that falleth into the Sheanon and going out of the same into the River of Brossnagh;—(there are two Brossnaghs; this which meareth Sir John Coghlan's country on that side from the Barony Longford, and the other Brossnagh, which falleth between Ormond and the south side of the saide barony of Longford into the Sheanon)—and so from the Brossnagh of Mac Coghlan's country to Bungowla, and so to Meanaghbeg, where we began.' It is curious that O'Dugan, in his topographical poem, makes no mention of the family of O'Madden, but makes the O'Huallachains, now Mac Cuolaghans, or Cuolahans, the sole chiefs of Siol Anmchadha, while the Book of Lecan (ubi supra, pp. 40, 41) makes the latter only the old chiefs of that territory. It is curious that the MacCuolahans, since they lost their rank of chiefs of the Sil Anmchadha, have been seated on the east side of the Shannon, and have retained no portion of the original territory lying west of that river.