"He is your honour. "What age in he? "Sure, he's my father your honour". The people of Kincora adhere with great tenacity to the baptismal designations home "by their ancestors, so that naturally these names heing repeated eften, "become Augmented in the process and we bear of lauty's Biddy, and Fat's Ann, and Tim's Fat, and so forth. To avoid this endless repetition, the priest undertook to introduce a few new names and commenced hy baptizia^ ft little girl, horn on the l^th "ovember, Gertrude. This was looked upon as an unpard¬ onable breach of custom hy one old woman of St. Maiachy's. Upon hearing of it she put on her shawl and went to see her neighbour. "Arrah" Said she, " did ye hear what county celled the girl?" "o, what? asked the neighbour. "garter" Said the dame with indescribable contempt. Another old settler, hearir.g that his son had called his child Fosella, Agatha said: "Fair, what a name, Kose Alligator". In 1872 the church of St. Maiachy was enlarged and improved by Father Doyle who added a chancel, vestry, tower and spire. It is complete in its appointments and contains a pretty altar, a fine statue in Carton Fierre, of the Sadfed Feart and one of our Lady of Louroes, besides plaster casts of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph, and a neat set of stations of the cross. Mr. Gilleans large picture of the Crucifixion still adorns the wall of the Sanctuary. Father Doyle has commenced building a charming residence close to the church which, when finished, will be an ornament to the country side. In the neatly kept gri've yard ar- ::.■ -:y handsome marble monuments raised to oemetuate the memory Of the honoured dead. Such mark the graves wherein li« the mortal remains