1890-91.] SURNAMES AND PLACE-NAMES, THE ISLE OF MAN. HI 



It appears that after the year 1333, many of the distinguished Anglo- 

 Norman famines that settled in Connaught and Munster became Hiberni- 

 cized, Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores, spoke the Irish language, and assumed 

 surnames like those of the Irish by prefixing Mac to the Christian names 

 of their ancestors, e.g.: — 



Gale, Mac an Ghaill. 

 Quillam, MacWilliam. 

 Kinry, MacHenry. 



Nicknames from father's or mother's Christian names are very com- 

 mon in the Isle of Man. Mr. Moore inserts a certain poem which is 

 somewhat amusing : — 



" Now, I'll be bail his name is Quaile, 



I see it in his face. 

 As sure as life, exclaimed his wife, 



He's something to that race. 

 Yes, you are right, good dame, said I, 



That is my father's name. 

 Though not the one that I go by, 



Nor like unto the same. 

 I am called by all both great and small. 



Bill Homnais-Beg-Tom Moar."* 



*Bill, the son of little Tommy, the son of big Tom. 



So far as place-names that are of Celtic origin are concerned, Mr. 

 Moore has found that — 



As my review of Mr. Moore's book has already extended to an undue 

 length ; and as in a paper which I had the honor of sending a few years 

 ago to the Canadian Institute, I discussed the topographical names of 

 the Isle of Man, I shall not now make any minute references to the very 

 instructive portion of his book, which deals with the place-names of his 

 native Island. Scottish Gaels will not be readily disposed to believe 

 that the well-known and expressive word Mull, Maol, Moyle, which 

 occurrs in the Mull of Kintyre, the Mull of Galloway, Mull of Oe, etc., 

 is of Scandinavian origin, and is not after all the pithy Gaelic word Maol, 

 bare or bald. According to Mr. Moore, Mull is the Scandinavian Muli, a 

 muzzle or snout, a headland or jutting crag. 



