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In Cornwall such words exist as : 
Carn brea, briadha, beautiful. 
Carn beak, beag, small. 
Carn-clog, clach, cloiche, a stone. 
‘Carn Pendower, pen ceann head, dobhar, water. 
Carn voel, mhaol, maol, bare. 
Carn leskez, leus, loisgidh, burning. 
Carnglos, glas, grey. 
Carn meal, mil, meala, honey. 
Carn Tork, tore, a boar. ‘ 
Carn Enys, Innis, an island. 
Onoc is found in such words as : 
Crocadon, cnoc, dun, a hillock. 
Crockard, cnoc ard, high. 
—  Carraig, which, along with carn and cnoc and dun, may fairly 
claim to be regarded as a representative Gaelic word, and which con- 
stantly occurs in the Topography of Scotland and Ireland, is present 
in such names as these : 
Carrick gloose, carraig glas, grey. 
Carradon, dun, a hillock. 
Caregroyne, ron, a seal. 
Cardew, dubh, black. 
Careg Tol, toll, a hole. 
Cardrew, doire, a thicket ; Druidh, a Druid. 
Dun, a hillock or fortress ; Cornish, Din, occur in such words as : 
Dunbar, barr, a top. 
Dunsley, sliabh, a mountain. 
Dunster, tir, land. 
Dunmear, mear, joyful ; mor, large. 
Tintagel, Tin, dum, castle ; diogel (Cornish), secure. The first 
syllable is very similar to dun or din. 
Tiadhan is a Gaelic word that signifies a /ittle hill; dioghailt in 
Gaelic signifies revenge. Gaelic roots are thus discernible in 
Tintagel, which is supposed to have been the birth-place and principal 
residence of the famous Arthur. Borlase says regarding it “ that it 
was a product of the rudest times before the Cornish Britons had 
learned from the Romans anything of the art of war.” So doleful 
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