The Scientific Tourist through Ireland: in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesqueWalford, Thomas
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The Scientific Tourist through Ireland: in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque
Walford, Thomas
Ireland -- Description and travel
_Or Explanation of some of those Irish Words which most frequently
occur in composition with the names of places._
_Agh_, a Field.
_Anagh_ or _Ana_, a River.
_Ard_, a high Place, or rising Ground.
_Ath_, a Ford.
_Awin_, a River.
_Bally_ or _Ballin_, a Town, or inclosed place of habitation.
_Ban_ or _Bane_, White, or Fair.
_Beg_, Little.
_Ben_, the summit of a Mountain, generally an abrupt head.
_Bun_, a Bottom, Foundation, or Root.
_Car_ or _Cahir_, a city.
_Carrick_, _Carrig_, _Carrow_, a Rock or Stony Place.
_Cork_, _Corcagh_, a Marsh, or swampy Ground.
_Clara_, a Plain.
_Croagh_, _Croghan_, a sharp pointed Hill resembling a Rick.
_Clogh_, _Clough_, a great Stone.
_Curragh_, a marshy or fenny Plain.
_Clon_, a Glade, or a level Pasture Ground.
_Col_, _Cul_, a Corner.
_Derry_, a clear dry Spot in the midst of a woody swamp.
_Don_, a Height or Fastness, a Fortress.
_Donagh_, a Church.
_Drom_, a high narrow Ridge of Hills.
_Inch_, _Inis_, an Island.
_Ken_, a Head.
_Kill_, a Church or Cemetery.
_Knock_, a single Hill, or a Hillock.
_Lick_, a flat stone.
_Lough_, a Lake, or a Pool.
_Magh_, a Plain.
_Main_, a Collection of Hillocks.
_More_, large, great.
_Rath_, a Mount or Entrenchment, a Barrow.
_Ross_, a Point of Land projecting into Waters.
_Shan_, Old.
_Sliebh_, a range of Mountain, a Hill _covered with Heath_.
_Tach_, a House.
_Temple_, a Church.
_Tom_, _Toom_, a Bush.
_Tra_, a Strand.
_Tobar_, _Tubber_, a Well or Spring.
_Tullagh_, a gentle Hill, a Common.
_Tully_, a Place subject to Floods.
TABLE _showing the Difference in Value of_ ENGLISH _and_
IRISH CURRENCY.
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