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

$u&»tanfitial faflftxcs. 213
either saint, as Lupus, like Rooney, may have had the
prefix mo, though it more probably refers to the Irish-
man, the famous Lupus being not so Hkely to have his
name changed.
The names of the four remaining parishes and their
churches are probably of much later origin. Both the
parishes of Ballaugh and 'LKZayre, the churches of
which were called in 1231 Stce. Maries de Ballylaughe,
'of St. Mary of Miretown ' (see p. 176), and Sti.
Trinitatis in Leayre, ' of the Holy Trinity in the Ayre,'
respectively, were probably mainly occupied by marshes
then, and even later. In 1423 the Charter of John de
Stanley, which confirms that of Magnus to the Church
of Sodor, mentions 'the village of Killcrast,' now
'LEzayye; in 1505 it is called Kirk Criste, and in the
manorial roll of 151 1 the parish Sti. Trinitatis (see
Rushen). Manx-speaking people called this church
Skeeylley - Chreest - NY - Heyrey, ' Christ's Parish
Church of the Ayre.' Here n has been changed into
/, as usual, so that ny Heyrey, or ny Ayre became
ly-ayre, or le-ayre ; and, more recently, by a curious
corruption, Lezayre. Chaloner, writing in the middle
of the seventeenth century, tells us that it was then
called Kirk Criste le Ayre, because it is placed ' in
a sharp ayre ' ! The name of the parish of Michael,
and its church Kirk Michael, or in Manx Skeeylley
Mayl, ' Michael's Parish Church,' does not appear
till 1299. The name of the parish of Andreas, and
its church Kirk Andreas, or in Manx Skeeylley
Andreays, * Andrew's Parish Church,' probably dates
from the period of Scotch rule (1275-1334), as it is
named after the patron saint of that country.