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Innishore, thorc of boars; Orkney in Scotland— Thre innis is 
the equivalent of innis hore. 
The names of almost all the counties of Ireland are purely 
Gaelic, e.g. : 
Antrim, an druim : the ridge. 
Londonderry, doire: a thicket. 
Tyrone, tir Hoghain : Owen’s land. 
Donegal, dun nan gall: the hillock or fort of the strangers. 
Fermanagh, fear manach, monk, or fear magh: the grassy plain. 
Leitrim, liath dhruim: the hoary ridge. 
Sligo, slégeach, shelly: slige, a shell. 
Roscommon, ros, a promontory. 
Mayo, magh, a plain, and 0, yew or beautiful. 
Galway, gaillimh = Gallthaobh: the border of strangers. 
Clare, even, flat. 
Limerick, /u‘mneach. 
Kerry, cearraidhe, ciar, dusky. 
Core, corcach, moor, marsh. 
Tipperary, tobair, tiobraid, or tipra?, well or fountain, and ara, 
the well or fountain of the river Ara. 
Dublin, dubh, black, and Uinne, pool: the Linne of Loch Linne 
and Roslin in Scotland, and meaning the black pool. 
Kildare, coll, a wood, and dara, oak ; the oak forest. 
Meath, midhe, the neck. 
Monaghan, mineachan, 
Waterford : its Gaelic name was ath luirye, ath leargu, the ford of 
the plain. 
Armagh, ard-magh, the high plain or macha. 
Down, dun: the hillock. 
Cavan, cabhan: a hollow plain, a field. 
The word cluain, cluan, cluaine is often found among the topo- 
graphical names of Scotland : it means Jawn or pasture. The word 
Clune occurs in Banff, Inverness, Perth, Ayr and Renfrew. Clune 
mor and clune bey are in Atholl. Clunie and Cluny appear in Perth- 
shire, Fife and Banff. Cluny in Invernesshire is the name of the 
home and title of the chief of the Clan MacPherson. The same 
word, cluain, occurs with exactly the same meaning in the Topography 
of Ireland, e. g. 
Cloyne, clwain wamha, the lawn of the cave. 
