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Kilkenzie, the cell or church of Cuineach or Coinneach. 
Killean, the cell or church of St. John. 
Kilcalmonell, the cell or church of Colum Cille. 
Kilchoman, the cell or church of Caomhan. 
Kilmartin, the cell or church of St. Martin. 
Kilmichael, the cell or church of St. Michael. 
Kilbride, the cell or church of St. Bridget. 
Kilmory, the cell or church of Mary. 
| Kilfinnan, the cell or church of St. Finnan, 
Kilmacolm, the cell or church of Calum Cille, is the name of a place 
near Port Glasgow. 
Kirkholm, the kirk of Calum Cille, is the name of a place in the 
south of Scotland. 
Inchcolm, the island of Calum Cille. 
In addition to Iona, there were other islands in the neighbourhood 
which were under the immediate control of Columba and his successors. 
It is difficult to identify all the islands that are mentioned by Adamnan, 
owing to the difference between the Latin names which he gives to them, 
and the Gaeiic names by which they are better known, On 77vee, a flat 
island west of Iona, there was a Monastery at Magh Luznge, or at the 
plain of the ship. Adamnan gives to Tiree the designation of /nxsula 
ethica. Various derivations have been assigned for the word T77ree. 
Some have maintained that the second Gaelic syllable ztze means island ; 
and that therefore, 7zvee means the land of the island; for there can be no 
‘doubt that the first syllable zzv, signifies Zand. Others suppose that the 
second syllable stands for Aodha or Hugh, and that thus Tiree means 
the land of Hugh—an explanation which finds its counterpart in Tirhugh 
in Donegal. In consequence of its great flatness, Tiree has been styled 
Ruigheachd barr fo thuinn. 
In the number of the Teachdaire Gaidhealach for January, 1831, 
there is a beautiful poem bearing the name Iul an Eileanaich, 
and having reference to Tiree, and to the difficulty of seeing it 
from even a short distance when the storm is raging and dark- 
ness is on the deep. There is in Irish a word z¢h, which signifies corn. 
From 2th, 2oth, eatha, etha, Adamnan doubtless formed the adjective 
ethica, so that his name of Tiree /usula ethica, means the island of the 
corn, or the productive island, and that the correct explanation of Tiree 
is tir and ithe, the land ofthe corn. 
