326 A TOPOGRAPHICAL ARGUMENT IN FAVOUR OF THE 
In Louth, Dee, da abh, double water. Dee is the name of a river 
in Cheshire and of several rivers in Scotland. 
In Cavan, Annalee, an liath, the hoary river. 
In Pown, Bann, a bend or hinge ; Lagan, a hollow. 
In Longford, Camlin, cam, crooked—the Cam of Cambridge—and 
linn, a pool. 
The streams and rivers of Ireland perpetuate purely Gaelic names, 
names which occur in the Topography of England and Scotland, and 
which tell that the same people in ages, however remote, gave names 
to the streams and rivers of the British Isles. 
The names of the Irish lochs are generally traceable to Gaelic. 
In Fermanagh are Loch Erne, iar an, the loch of the west river ; 
Melvin, meal/, a mass or heap, and min, soft, meall, mhin ; Gill, the 
Loch Goil of Scotland, from got to boil. 
In Mayo are Loch Conn, Loch Cuan, the loch of the ocean ; 
Mask, measca, mixture or confounding ; Loughrea, riach, riabhach, 
grayish loch. 
In Clare, Loch Roe, ruadh, the reddish loch ; Loch Derg, red, the 
red loch ; Loch Doo, dubh, the black loch. 
In Kerry, Loch Allua, allaidh, savage or wild loch. 
In Cavan, Loch Ouchter, wachdar, upper, the upper loch ; Loch 
Sheelin, sith pass, linn, pool or water; Loch Neagh, loch n’ eathach ; 
Loch Gur, gair, gearr, short; Loch Foyle, feabhail, fuail, water ; 
Loch Suilly, swileach or saileach. 
The names of the islands that lie along the Irish coast are also 
Gaelic, e.g. : 
Rathlinn, rath, defence or way, and linn, pool. 
Innistrahull, innis tri chaoil, the island of the three straits. The 
last syllable, caol, is the first syllable in Calais, and is identical with 
Caol in the Kyles of Bute, and in Caol Isle, &e. 
Torry Island, on the western coast, from torr, a heap. 
Inishbofin, znnis bofin, cow white as milk: island of the milk or 
white cow. 
Inishfree, freadh, plundering: the island of plundering. 
North Inniskea, sgiath, a wing; Skye in Scotland: the island of 
the wing. 
South Inniskea : island of the wing. 
Innisturk, torc, a boar: the island of the boar. 
