a goat; _e.g._ Capri, Caprera, Cabrera (goat island); Chèvreuse, anc. _Capriosa_ (the place of goats); Chevry, Chevrière, Chevreville, with the same meaning, in France; Gateshead, in Co. Durham, Lat. _Capræ-caput_, perhaps the Latin rendering of the Saxon word (the head of the _gat_ or passage)--the _Pons Ælius_ of the Romans; or, according to another meaning, from the custom of erecting the head of some animal on a post as a tribal emblem. In Ireland, Glengower (the glen of the goats), and Glengower, in Scotland; Ballynagore (goat’s town), in Ireland; Gowrie and Gower, in several counties of Scotland; Ardgower (goat’s height); Carnan-gour (the goat’s crag). [Sidenote: CAR (Cel.),] crooked or bending; _e.g._ the Rivers Carron, in several parts of Scotland; Charente and Charenton, in France; also the Cher, anc. _Carus_ (the winding river). [Sidenote: CARN, CAIRN (Gadhelic), CARN (Welsh), CARNEDD, a heap of stones, such as was erected by the ancient Britons over the graves of their great men; _e.g._ Carn-Ingli (the cairn of the English); Carn-Twrne (the cairn of the turnings). It was named from a stupendous monument which stood on three pillars, within a circuit of upright stones.] a heap of stones thrown together in a conical form, also a rocky mount; _e.g._ Carnac (abounding in cairns), in Brittany; Carnmore (great cairn); Carnock (the hill of the cairn); Carntoul, Gael. _Carn-t-sabhal_ (the cairn of the barn); Carntaggart (of the priest); Carnrigh (of the king); Cairndow, Cairnglass, Cairngorm (the black, the gray, the blue mountains); Cairnan and Cairnie (little cairn); Carnwath (the cairn at the ford); Carnoustie (the cairn of heroes); Carnbee (the birch cairn), in Scotland. In Ireland: Carntochar (the hill of the causeway); Carn-Tierno (Tigernach’s cairn); Carnbane (white cairn); Carnsore Point, in Irish being simply the _carn_ or monumental heap, _ore_ (a promontory) having been added by the Danes; Carnteel, Irish _Carn-t-Siadhal_ (Shiel’s monument). In Wales: Carn-Dafydd (David’s cairn); Carn-Llewelyn (Llewelyn’s cairn); Carnfach (little cairn), in Monmouth; Fettercairn, perhaps the deer’s cairn, Gael. _feidh_ (deers); Chirnside (the side or site of the cairn), on one of the Lammermuir Hills; Carnoch (abounding in cairns), a parish in Fife; Boharm, in Banffshire, anc. _Bocharin_ (the bow about the cairn). The countries of Carniola and Carinthia probably derived their names from this Celtic root. [Sidenote: CARRAIG, CARRICK (Gadhelic), CRAG, or CARREG (Welsh), CARRAG (Cornish),]