"• Pinkman Loch-an-Scuir = Lake of the horse stud. Scor, genitive scuir, is a word with various meanings. Joyce translates loch-an-scuir lake of the horse-stud and O’Donovan, in the Supplement to O’Reilly’s Dictionary, gives the meaning tent or camp. This is the name of a lough and the name of a townland in Kiltubrid Parish. The place south west of the lough was called Achadh-an-Scuir and is now known as Lough Scur townland. The Annals of Loch Cé have a number of references to this lake or lough. “The four sons of Cathal Mac-an-Caic McRannall were taken prisoners on Loch-an-Scuir.” AD 1346 “Manus O’Rourke, who had been held by O’Reilly in Cloch-Locha-Uachtair, escaped from it and went to the castle of Loch-an-Scuir.” AD 1390 “Loch-an-Scuir was taken by Cathal Dubh, son of Brian Mac Diarmada.” AD 1580 The Mac Rannalls, who were chiefs of Muintir-Eolais, had this castle on Lough Scur. They were subject to O’Ruairc but frequently rebelled and rose in arms against him. “O’Donnell, O’Rourke

"• Arch. Inventory Gowly. ‘Otter Island.’ Crannóg. Towards the W shore of the triangular E end of Lough Scur. Gowly. ‘Crannoge.’ Crannóg. At a narrow point connecting the triangular E end with the triangular central part of Lough Scur (48). Roscarban. ‘Crannoge.’ Crannóg. At the centre of the central part of Lough Scur (51). Gowly. ‘Prison (in Ruins).’ Tower. In mixed woodland on a rock outcrop island on Lough Scure. Reputedly this was built as a prison, probably by John Reynolds of Castle John c.200m to S across the lake, in 1612 when he was the sheriff of Leitrim… (207). Megalithic structure. ‘Standing Stones.’ On a slight rise in pasture in a broad E-W valley with Lough Scur c0.5km to E (9). Portal tomb. ‘Dermot & Grania’s Bed.’ In pasture on a gently NW-facing slope c.400m S of Lough Scur (10). "

"• LSO: The peasantry have fabled that Loch-an-Scuir, a lake near Kesh-Carrigin in the Parish of Kiltubbrid, is named from Oscar, the son of Ossian, but as we have the authority of the O’Duigenans for its correct orthography we must reject a tradition which very probably is not one hundred years old. The same remark will hold good with respect to a Cromlech near the lake, said by them to be Oscar’s grave, but the field in which it stands they call Achadh an Scuir, i.e. the Field of the Scor. …. There is an island on Lough-an-Scur called by the peasantry Jail Island, but I wish to have it Prison-Island on the Map. Mac Rannall’s Castle on the same lake is called Caisleán Seóin by the Irish, and Castle John on Larkin’s Map. "

• “In the Barony of Leitrim there is a manor of Loghskur belonging to James Reynolds Esq. and to his predecessors always.” (Journal of the Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society, Iml. 1, Uimh.3, c.1931/2, lch 40)

(Reynolds)

(James Reynolds) Féach Bréifne, 1971.

(Reynolds)

"This a lately fabricated tradition - Lough Scur has no connection with Oscar. " [OD]

'lake of the cessation'