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conical hill," so a new generation called it Torrbrae, and as if 

 that were not enough, in order better to describe its shape, another 

 generation added the word head; so we have Torrbraehead, which 

 is very like hill, hill, hill. In Tynron we have the Clone, or 

 "meadow beside the moss:" it is a name common to Gaelic, Manx, 

 and Erse ; thus Clones in Monaghan, Clonard in Meath, and it 

 appears elsewhere as Cluny, Clunes, Clones. It elsewhere appears 

 in Tynron as Clonerea, "the smooth, fertile meadow by the marsh." 

 Carlyle, in his " Reminiscences," probably forgetting partially, 

 calls this Clone of ours " the Clove, or cleft place between the hills," 

 as he goes on to explain, and thus our old fine Gadhelic word 

 runs a risk of being made a Saxon one, and all on the authority 

 of a man of genius, whose eai-, perhaps, was waxed up with cold 

 when he first heard the place-name uttered. Tynron — In the 

 old session records it is written Tinnerin and Tindrivi. The last 

 word connects it with Tyndrum, Perthshire. Tan is the Celtic 

 for fire. We have it still in the Scotch word Tawnle, which, 

 according to Jamieson, meant originally "a large fire, kindled at 

 night, about the time of Beltane." Drum is a long-backed ridge. 

 There is another word in Tynron beginning with the same syl- 

 lable, Tinleago or Tinlaglit. There is also a high hill, Cormilligan 

 Bale. With these facts before us we are warranted in saying that 

 Tynron originally meant, to the Celt, a " beacon hill" or " ridge 

 on which was kindled the sacred fires." We meet with tan, fire, 

 softened into tin in place-names, as Ardentinny, Craigentinny, 

 and Tinto, and all these very well could be hills on which sacred 

 fires were kindled. We now proceed to give some of the Tynron 

 place-names, which, it will be seen, are mostly Celtic. Maol- 

 whinny, the broad smooth hill. Lamgarroch, ihe rough land. 

 Croglin, Joyce says Crug, a rick, a heap, a stack. La7i, Linny, 

 a granary. Marshmalloch, the marsh in the upland. Fenzeree, 

 the smooth hill. Knockenboy, the yellow hill. Snob, the project- 

 ing point. Monntlwoly, perhaps from main tulloch, the little hill. 

 Cormilligan, little round hills (Joyce, 1st series) ; very descriptive. 

 Craigencoon, the ciirved or winding stone (Joyce, 2d series). 

 Bennan, the diminutive of Ben, a mountain. Strathmilligan, the 

 glen of the little round hills. CorriMoo, the dark glen. Kilmark, 

 boundary kirk (Blackie). Kirkconnel, church of St Counel 

 (Blackie). Laght or Leaght, sepulchral monument (Joyce). Clod- 

 roch (Clone-darroch), the meadow of the oak trees. Dalmakerran 



