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small speckled lake, probably from its abounding in trout ; Loch- 
fergus, from Loch-Feargus, or Fergus’ lake ; Lochdow, from Loch- 
dubh, the black lake. Zag and Lagan, which signify a hollow, 
and a small hollow, are also general, often singly, and occasion- 
ally as a prefix ; Laganorry, from Lagan-airidh, the hollow of the 
shealing ; Laggan-Mullan, from Lagan-mhuillin, the hollow of 
the mill. Mon is an English contraction of the Gaelic Monadh, 
which means a hill; Minniedow, from Monadh-dubh, the black 
hill; Minnibuie, from Monadh-buidhe, the yellow or auburn hill; 
Muncraig, from Monadh-creag, the rocky hill. Yorr, which means 
a conical hill, is used singly as Zor, and Jorrs, and as a prefix— 
Tormanie, from Torr-na-monaidh, the conical hill of the mountain; 
Torrorie, fromTorr-airidh, the conical hill of the shealing. The 
next on the list is the prefix Pol, from the Gaelic Poll, which 
means a pool; Puleree, from Poll-crioch, the boundary pool ; 
Polmadie, from Poll-madaidh, the wolf’s pool ; Polvaddock, from 
Poll-feadog, the plover’s pool. The English words Rie and Arie 
are from the Gaelic words Rwighe and Aridh, signify a shealing, 
that is, the place of the summer pasture, also a dwelling at these 
during the summer season; Benaire, from Beinn-arridh, the 
shealing of the mountain ; Clauchrie, from Cloiche-ruigh, the 
stony summer pasture; JLargirie, from Learg-airidh, the 
summer pastures of the hill-side. Having thus given local 
examples of the above Gaelic prefixes, we will now turn 
to the Saxon suffixes, where it will be found that those which 
occur most frequently denote an enclosure of some kind, 
something hedged, walled in, or protected, which prove how 
intensely the Saxon race was imbued with the principles of the 
sacred nature of property, and how eager every man was to 
possess some spot he could call his own, and guard from the 
intrusion of every other man. Those universally recurring 
terminations, ton, ham, hay, burgh, yard, garth, park, croft, and 
field, all convey the notion of inclosure, or protection, of which 
the following are local examples:—Chapleton, Edingham, Auchen- 
hay, Dryburgh, Clonyard, Fairgirty, Gledpark, Coopercroft, 
and Broadfield. There are over fifty places in the Stewartry 
having the suffix ton, which signifies a place surrounded by a 
hedge, or rudely fortified by a palisade. It becomes like the 
Gaelic Ach, a sort of test word, by which we are able to trace 
the localities where the Saxon intruders first settled among a 
hostile and alien race. Those places called Garleton and Borland 
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