a mound, a heap, a conical hill, cognate with the Lat. _turris_, the Ger. _thurm_, and the Grk. _pyrgos_ (a tower); Tor, in Ireland, means a tower also; _e.g._ Toralt (the tower of the cliff); Tormore (great tower or tower-like rock); Tornaroy (the king’s tower); Tory Island, off the Irish coast, had two distinct names--_Torach_ (_i.e._ abounding in tower-like rocks), and _Toirinis_ (the island of the tower), so named from a fortress called _Tor-Conaing_ (the tower of Conaing, a Fomorian chief); Torran, Tortan (little tower), applied to little knolls, as in Toortane and Turtane; Mistor and Mamtor, in Devonshire; Croken Torr, in Cornwall (a hill where meetings were held--_gragan_, Welsh, to speak); Torphichen (the raven’s hill), a parish in West Lothian; Torbolton, in Ayrshire, tradition says is the town of Baal’s mound. There is a beautiful hill in the parish where superstitious rites are still held; a bonfire is raised, and a sort of altar erected, similar to those described in the sacrifices to Baal on Mount Carmel; Torbay, in Devonshire, named from the hill which overlooks the bay, which gives its name to Torquay; Torrdubh and Torrduff (black hill); Torbane and Torgorm (the white and the blue hill); Torbreck (speckled hill); Torinturk (the wild boar’s hill); Kintore (at the head of the hill), in Aberdeenshire; Turriff, in Banffshire, is the plural form of _toir_. From the Lat. _turris_ and its derivatives, come Tordesillas (the tower of the bishop’s see), in Spain; Torquemada, Lat. _Turris cremata_ (the burned tower); Torr-alba and Torre-blanca (the white tower); Torrecilla, Lat. _Turricellæ_ (the church-towers), in Spain; Torres-novas and Torres-vedras (the new and old towers), in Portugal; Torella (the little tower), Naples; Truxillo, in Spain, _i.e._ _Turris-Julii_ (the tower of Julius); Tourcoing (corner tower), in France; La-tour-Sans-Venin, near Grenoble, is a corrupt. of _Tour-Saint-Verena_--to this saint the chapel was dedicated; Tournay, in Belgium, Lat. _Turris Nerviorum_ (the tower of the Nervii); Torres-Torres (the fortifications of the mountains), Tours, in France, is not named from this root, but from the _Turones_, a tribe; but Torres Strait was named after the navigator Torres, who discovered it in 1606. In the Semitic languages also _Tzur_ means a rock; it is the root of the names of the city of Tyre, and of Syria, of which in early times it was the chief city. Taurus or Tor is a general name for a mountain chain; Tabris (the mountain town), a city of Persia. [Sidenote: TRAETH (Cym.-Cel.), TRAIGH (Gadhelic),]