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IRISH LOCAL NAMES EXPLAINED

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VOCABULARY OF IRISH ROOT WORDS A B C D E F G I L M N O P R S T U

VOCABULARY OF IRISH ROOT WORDS

Cabhan [cavan], a hollow; in some parts of Ulster it signifies a round hill; cavan.

Caech [kay], blind, purblind, one-eyed; keagh, kee.

Caenach [keenagh], moss; keenagh.

Caera [kaira], a sheep; keeragh, and, eclipsed with the article, nageeragh.

Caerthainn [kairhan], the quicken tree; keeran, caran, kerane, keraun.

Cairthe [carha], a pillar stone; carra, carlia, and car.

Caiseal [cashel], a circular stone fort; Cashel, castle.

Caislean [cushlaun], a castle; cashlaun, cashlane.

Cala, a marshy meadow along a river or lake; a landing place for boats; callow and cola.

Capall, a horse; capple, cappul, and eclipsed with the article (see p. 2), nagappul and nagapple.

Carn, a monumental heap of stones; carn, carna. Carr, a rock, rocky land.

Carraig [corrig], a rock ; carrig, carrick, carriga.

Cartron, a quarter of land (Anglo-Norman).

Casan [cassaun], a path.

Cath [cah], a battle.

Cathair [caher], a circular stone fort, a city; caher, cahir.

Ceallurach [calluragh], an old burial ground; callooragh.

Cealtrach [caltragh], an old burial ground; caltragh caldragh.

Ceann [can], the head, front, or highest part of anything; kan, can, kin, ken.

Ceapach [cappa], a plot of ground laid down in tillage; cappagh, cappa, cap, cappy.

Ceard [card], an artificer; nagard, nagarde, "of the artificers."

Ceardcha [cardha], a forge; carte, cart, cartan, carton.

Ceathrainhadh [carhoo], a quarter, a quarter of land , carrow, carhoo, carrive.

Ceide [keady], a hillock, a hill level and smooth aT top; keady, keadew, keadagh, cady, caddagh.

Ceis [kesh], a wicker basket, a wickerwork causeway; kish, kesh.

Cill [kill], a church; kill, kil, kyle, keel, cal, kille, killa,

Cinel [kinel], kindred, race, descendants; kinel, kinal

Cladh [cly or claw], a ditch; cly, claw, cla.

Clann, children, a tribe; clan, clann.

Clar, a board, a plain; clar, clare.

Clais [clash], a trench ; clash.

Cliath [clee], a hurdle.

Cloch, a stone, a stone castle; clogh, dough, clo, clohy, cloy, naglogh.

Clochan, a row of stepping stones across a river, sometimes a stone castle; cloghan, cloghane, cloghaun.

Cluain [cloon], a meadow, a fertile piece of land among bogs, marshes, or woods; cloon, clon, clin, cloony.

Cnap [knap], a knob, a round little hill; knap, nap, crap, crup.

Cnoc [knock], a hill; knock, knick, nick, crock, cruck.

Cobhlach [cowlagh], a fleet; cowly, howly, coltig, holt.

Coigeadh [coga], a fifth part, a province; cooga, coogue

Coill, a wood; kil, kyle, cuill, cullia.

Coinicer [knickere], a rabbit warren; coneykeare, coni-car, conigar, conigare, kinnegar, nicker, etc.

Coinin [cunneen], a rabbit; coneen, nagoneen, nagoneeny.

Coll, the hazel: coll, col, cole, cull, cul, coyle, kyle quill.

Congbhail [congwal], a habitation, a church; conwal connell, cunnagavale.

Cor, a round hill, etc

Cora, a weir; cor, corra, curra, cur.

Corc, corca, race, progeny; corka.

Corcach, a marsh; corcagh, corkey, cork.

Corr, a crane or heron; cor, gor, gore, nagor.

Cos, a foot; cuss, cush, cosh.

Cot, a small boat; cotty.

Craebh [crave], a branch, a large branchy tree; creeve, crew, creevy, nagreeve.

Craig [crag], a rock.

Crann, a tree; crann, cran, crin, nagran.

Crannog, an artificial island or lake dwelling; crannoge, cronoge.

Creabhar [crour], a wood-cock; crour, nagrour.

Creamh [crav], wild garlic.

Croch, a cross, a gallows, crogh, crohy, crehy, creha.

Crochaire [crohera], a hangman; croghera, croghery, nagroghery.

Cros, a cross; cross, crush, crusha.

Cruach, cruachan [cruagh, cruhaun], a rick, a round stacked up hill; crogh, cruagh, croagh, croghan, croaghan.

Cruit [crit], a hump, a round little hill; cruit, crotta, crutta, crit.

Cu, a fierce dog, a hound - genitive con; con, nagon, nagun.

Cuas [coose], a cave, a cove; coos, coose, cose, couse, goose, gose, nagoose.

Cuil [cooil], a corner, an angle; cool, cole.

Cuillionn [cullion], holly; cullion, cullen.

Cum [coom], a hollow, a dell or valley enclosed, except on one side, by mountains; coom, coum, coombe.

Currach, a marsh; curragh, curry, curra.