the smooth grassy patch of the bones

Bhailigh Seán Ó Donnabháin seanchas faoi bhunús an logainm seo ó fhear áitiúil darb ainm Ó Mearlaoich (Merly). Scríobh sé an méid seo a leanas i Litreacha na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis:

After the defeat of Scarve Sollus (maidhm scairbhe solais) the Irish party betook themselves to the wilds of Glenfinn and passing through the townland of Srath na Bratóige they dropped their banner which gave it its name. They were afterwards pursued and overtaken at Meenagrauv where a most merciless slaughter was made of them so that their bodies were strewed on the ground like the trees of a felled wood. After the lapse of some years when peace was restored and some of the Irish allowed to settle in Glenfinn, the bones of the slain were found in this townland, gnawed by the wolves and bleaching to the sun and the northern blasts. These were collected and interred by their countrymen who in commemoration of the massacre..., styled the place Mín na gCnámh (féach "Placenames of Inniskeel and Kilteevoge", James O'Kane, Zeitschrift fur Celtische Philologie, Band 31 (1970))

Mhair a leithéid de sheanchas isteach san 20ú haois nuair a bailíodh ábhar do Bhailiúchán na Scol sna 1930í:

Nuair a bhí an chath thart i Srath na mBratóig chuaidh na Gáill [sic] síos agus throid siad cath eile ins an áit seo. Marbhadh cuid mhór daoine agus cuireadh iad ins an áit in ár [sic] troideadh an chath. Ins an am fá lathair nuair a bhíonns na daoine ag treabhadh an talaimh bíonn siad ag tochailt aníos cuid de na cnámha. Sin an fáth a tugadh Mín na gCnámh ar an áit. (Imleabhar 1094, Leathanach 027). (JÓG)