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Chryose, tigh an rois, the house of the foreland. 
Coille, the Gaelic term for wood, which enters into such Scottish 
names as Killiecrankie, Killiemore, is discernible in such Cornish 
words as :— 
Killiard, coille ard, high. 
Killignock, coille cnoc, a hill. 
Killigrew, coille garbh, rough. 
Killivor, coille, mhor, mor, large. 
Los, a garden or entrenchment, which forms the first syllable of 
Lismore in Scotland and Lisdoo, Lismoyle, Lismullin, in Ireland, ap- 
pear in the Cornish names : 
Liskeard, lios gu h-ard. : 
Lizard, the Cornish Chersonesus, lios, ard, high. 
Toll, a hole, belongs to the category of expressive Gaelic mono- 
syllables, and is found in such Cornish words as : 
Toleairn, toll cairn. 
Toldower, dobhar, water. 
Tolver, mor, large. 
Tolverne, bhuirn, burn, water. 
Porth, port, a harbour, is a Gaelic word of indisputable antiquity, 
and is present in numerous Cornish names, e. g. : 
Porth ennis, innis, an island. 
Porth glas, glas, grey. 
Porth lea, liath, hoary. 
Porth loe, loch, a loch. 
Portugal, port nan Gaidheal, the harbour of the Gaels, continues 
to declare that the Gaels could not have been strangers in the far-off 
ages in the south-west of Europe. 
Port na curaich, in the island of Iona, enables the traveller to 
determine the exact locality where St. Columba first landed from the 
coracle or wicker-boat covered with hides, that conveyed him from 
Treland. 
The citations which have been adduced from the Topography of 
‘Cornwall furnish satisfactory evidence, that the substratum of that 
Topography is Gaelic ; and that the conclusion may in all fairness 
be drawn that Celts, whose language was Gaelic, had their home in 
that portion of England before the Cymry had a distinctive exist- 
ence in Britain, and long before the days of Arthur and the Knights 
of the Round Table. 
