Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivationsBlackie, Christina
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Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivations
Blackie, Christina
Names, Geographical
a wood--in topography it takes the forms of kel, kil, kelly, killy,
and kyle; _e.g._ Kellymore, and sometimes Kilmore (the great wood);
Kelburn, Kelvin, Kellyburn, and Keltie (the woody stream); Callander,
_Coille-an-dar_ (the oak-wood); Cuilty, Quilty, Kilty (the woods);
Kilton (the town in the wood), in Scotland. In Ireland: Kilbowie
(yellow wood); Kildarroch (the oak-wood); Kilcraig (the wood of the
rock); Kildinny (of the fire)--_v._ TEINE; Killiegowan (of the smith);
Kilgour (of the goats); Eden-keille (the face of the wood); Kylebrach
(the spotted wood); Kylenasagart (the priest’s wood); Kailzie (the
woody), a parish in Peebles; but Kyle, in Ayrshire, is not from this
root, but was named after a mythic Cymric king; Loughill, in Co.
Limerick, corrupt. from _Leamhchoill_ (the elm-wood); Barnacullia (the
top of the wood), near Dublin; Culleen and Coiltean (little wood);
Kildare, anc. _Coill-an-chlair_ (the wood of the plain).
[Sidenote: COIRE, or CUIRE (Gadhelic),]
a ravine, a hollow, a whirlpool; _e.g._ Corrie-dow (the dark ravine);
Corrie-garth (the field at the ravine); Corrimony (the hill, _monadh_,
at the ravine); Corrielea (the gray ravine); Corrie (the hollow), in
Dumfriesshire; Corriebeg (the little hollow); Corryvrechan whirlpool
(Brecan’s cauldron); Corgarf (the rough hollow, _garbh_); Corralin
(the whirlpool of the cataract)--_v._ LIN; Corriebuie (yellow ravine);
Corryuriskin (of the wild spirit); but _Cor_, in Ireland, generally
signifies a round hill, as in Corbeagh (birch hill); Corglass (green
hill); Corkeeran (rowan-tree hill); Corog and Correen (little hill);
while _Cora_, or _Coradh_, signifies a weir across a river, as in
Kincora (the head of the weir); Kirriemuir, in Forfar, corrupt. from
_Corriemor_ (the great hollow); Loch Venachoir, in Perthshire, is the
fair hollow or valley--_v._ FIN, p. 80.
[Sidenote: COL, COLN (Lat. _colonia_),]
a colony; _e.g._ Lincoln, anc. _Lindum-colonia_ (the colony at
Lindum, the hill fort on the pool, _linne_); Colne (the colony), in
Lancashire; Cologne, Lat. _Colonia-Agrippina_ (the colony), Ger.
_Köln_. The city was founded by the Ubii 37 B.C., and was at first
called _Ubiorum-oppidum_, but a colony being planted there in 50 A.D.
by Agrippina, the wife of the Emperor Claudius, it received her name.
[Sidenote: COMAR, CUMAR (Gadhelic),
CYMMER, KEMBER (Cym.-Cel.),]
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