Blair Collection > Surnames & place-names of the Isle of Man

6o 195 anx Sutjttanti?s.
The name Cregeen, is frequently softened into
CoGEEN in conversation.
COTGEEN [1737], COJEEN [1771], COGEEN [1785] .
Callow, contracted from Mac Calbach, ' Calbach's son.'
Calbach is pronounced Calwagh, which is
easily softened into Callow. It seems to mean
* bald,' cognate with the Latin calviis, a word which
was adopted into the Teutonic languages at an
early date, so that we have old English Calugh,
Calcwe, Anglo-Saxon Caki, ' bald.' Milton speaks
of ' callow young,' ' callow ' here referring to the
condition of the young unfledged bird. ' Richard
le Calewe ' is in the Parliamentary writs for
A.D. 1313. Allow and Aloe are met with as
Christian names in the Isle of Man till the middle
of the seventeenth century, which points to the
possibility of another derivation.
Calowe, Calo [1511], Callow, M'Aloe [1586],
Calow [1611].
Maughold, Bride (vc), Jurby, Braddan, Lezayre, Malew,
Arbory, Lonan (c), elsewhere (u).
Kermeen, perhaps contracted from Mac Hcremoii,
' Heremon's son.' Heremon was the seventh in
descent from Milesius, and became Monarch of all
Ireland.
Compare (Irish) Harmon, Erwin, Irwin, Kir-
wan, (English) Curwen.
Mac Ermyn [1429] , Mac Erymyn, and MacKermayne
[1511], Mac Cormyn [1521], Kermeen [1630],
Kermen [1642], Kirmeene [1668].
This name is now uncommon everywhere. Formerly,
Maughold (vc), Braddan, German (c), elsewhere (u).