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-cannot find any fuch word in Lhuyd’s Iriffi Dic- 
tionary, pofiibly it may be only a corruption of 
Killaloe near which town fuch trouts are caught. 
The poke of the Gdlaroo feems to perform the 
office of a gizzard, becaufe feveral final 1 fnails were 
found within the prefent fpecimen, and 1 conclude, 
that this fpecies of food abounds in the lake, which 
this variety of trout frequents. 
By the beft information I can procure, they are 
more common in lough corryb, and the lakes of 
galway, than the other waters oi Ireland : they 
are alfo caught in lough dern, through which 
the shannon runs: I inclofe however fome memo- 
randa relative to the Gillaroo trouts, which 
Mr. Walsh, f. R. s. was fo good as to make for 
me, whilih he was, lafi: futnmer, in Ireland, fume 
cf which he received from an inn-keeper at kil- 
laloe, -and the others from fifhermen of lough 
dern. 
If the particulars, I have Hated, happen to prove 
interefting to the Society, I hope they will do me 
the honour of giving the fpecimen a place in their 
Mufeum. I am, 
dear sir, 
Your moil faithful humble Servant, 
DAINES BARRINGTON. 
* Though I do not pretend to underftand either the Wellh 
or Irifh languages, yet I know that there is a great affinity be- 
twixt them, in the names for common things. 
Now cylla fignihes the Jlomcuh in Wei fir (fee Davis’s Dictio- 
nary Artie. Ventriculm ) and ruadb is rendered prong by Lliuyd, 
in his Irifh Vocabulary : Gillaroo therefore is th ejiomach Jh-ong , 
as the adjective follows the fubftantive, according to the Welfh 
idiom, and probably therefore according to the Irifh. 
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