an island, also in some cases pasture land near water, or a peninsula. It often takes the form of _inch_, as in Inchkeith (the island of the Keith family); Inchcolm (St. Columba’s Island); Inchfad (long isle); Inchgarvie (the rough island); Inchard (high isle); Inch-Cailleach (the island of the old women or nuns), in Loch Lomond, being the site of an ancient nunnery; Inchmarnoch (of St. Marnoch), in the Firth of Clyde; Inchbrackie (the spotted isle); Inchgower (the goat’s isle); Inchtuthill (the island of the flooded stream); Craignish, anc. _Craiginche_ (the rocky peninsula); Durness, in Sutherlandshire, is a corrupt. from _Doirbh-innis_ (the stormy peninsula); Ynys-Bronwen (the island of Bronwen, a Welsh lady who was buried there), in Anglesey; Ynis-wyllt (wild island), off the coast of Wales; Inysawdre (the isle and home of refuge), in Glamorgan. In Ireland: Ennis (the river meadow); Enniskillen, Irish _Inis-Cethlenn_ (the island of Cethlenn, an ancient queen of Ireland); Ennisheen (beautiful island); Devenish, in Lough Erne, is _Daimhinis_ (the island of oxen). But Enniskerry is not from this root; it is corrupt. from _Ath-na-scairbhe_ (the rough ford); Orkney Isles, Gael. _Orc-innis_ (the islands of whales); they are sometimes called _Earr-Cath_ (the tail of Caithness); Innisfallen, in Lake Kallarney (the island of Fathlenn); the Hebrides or Sudereys, called _Innisgall_ (the islands of the Gaels); the Aleutian Islands, from Russ. _aleut_ (a bald rock); in Holland, Duiveland (pigeon island), and Eyerlandt (the island of the sand-bank); Eilenburg, in Saxony (the town on an island in the R. Mulda); Isola, a town in Illyria (on an island); Issola or Imo-Isola (low island), in Italy; Lille, in Flanders, anc. _L’Isle_, named from an insulated castle in the midst of a marsh; Peloponnesus (the island of Pelops); Polynesia (many islands). [Sidenote: INVER, or INBHIR (Gadhelic), INNER,]