NOTES ON DTJLOE CIEOULAB ENCLOSUEE. 97 



Whether the country parish of Duloe takes its name from 

 the water or not, the harbour and towns of Looe seem to do so ; 

 for all are agreed that Lo, Loo, Looe, Lough, Loch, Lake, are 

 synonymous, and the waters of the sea and rivers meet in the 

 land-locked estuary there, and spread out in lake-fashion.* 



But, further, we may observe that if the latter part of the 

 name of the Parish be taken from the name of the Looe, the 

 prefix may also refer to the same, without meaning either 

 "black" or "Divine," for "Dour" in Cornish signifies 

 " water" or river. Accordingly, in the old Cornish Manuscripts 

 we find the expressions: — "dour cedron " ; "dour tyber" ; — 

 f or " brook-Cedron " ; "river-Tiber." Similarly, " dour looe " 

 (shortened to Du-loe) would stand for water-looe, the stream of 

 the Looe, " Looe river," Tidal-lake river. 



And moreover it is to be noted that if the Cornish adjective 

 du, or dhu, for black, were part of the compound name of 

 the parish, it would probably stand at the end, instead of the 

 beginning, of the word ; as in the names Pol- dhu, black-pond, 

 or mud-pool ; Bal-dhu, black mine-work, or hill ; &c. (See also 

 Dr. Jago's Cornish Dictionary, p. 18; — Moran-dhiu, blackberry; 

 Mola-dhiu, blackbird, &c.) 



There are, however^ other explanations of Du, possible. 

 Dun, downe, dune, is a hill, therefore Looe-rise, — the land above 

 the Pool — as well as various different combinations, might also be 

 suggested. Again, Dew (or Dui) in Cornish signifies two, a 

 pair, a couple ; the name Dew-loe might therefore perhaps be 

 given to a district to a great extent embraced, as this parish is, 

 by the two branches of Looe rivers. Moreover, Diwedh, Duadh, 



* Williams, in his Cornish Lexicon, gives " Lo, an inlet of water, a pool, a 

 pond ; — preserved in the local names, Looe, and Duloe : — black-pool." He quotes, 

 as cognate terms, the Greek, lakkos ; Latin, lacus ; Welsh, llwch ; Armoric, 

 louch; Irish and Gaelic, loch; Manx, logh." 



With regard to the double term, Loo-pool (applied to more than one such 

 inlet), the expression appears to be a reduplication, — the Cornish title linked with 

 the English for translation, — Loo-pool standing for " Loo— otherwise Pool." 

 Similar instances of reduplication are known, e.g., Bray-hill, "Brea — otherwise 

 hill;" Dinas-castle, " Dinas — otherwise Castle;" Castle-an-Dinas, "Castle- 

 otherwise the Dinas, or hill-camp." 



And whereas Lo, in Celtic, or old Cornish, means a flowing-pool, or tidal- 

 lake, — so Pol signifies a stagnant pool or pond , a water-pit or well. 



