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

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' Laughing Stream,' in Sulby Glen. This is a
trickling mountain stream, which, when its water
is glancing in the sunlight, might well deserve the
above epithet.
Coar (C), 'pleasant, agreeable;' in Ballacoar, ' Plea-
sant Farm;' Cronkcoar, ' Pleasant Hill ;' Kerroo-
COAR and Kerroocoare, ' Pleasant Quarter
(-land) ;' and Slieaucoar, * Pleasant Mountain.'
If old Manx people are asked the meaning of the
name of this mountain, they will say, * It is called
the kindly mountain, because it gives such good turf.'
Tonnagh (C), 'wavy;' in Ballathonna, 'Wavy
Farm.' The ground of this farm, in the parish of
Andreas, is undulating.
Geayee, ' windy,' is properly the genitive case of geay,
'wind,' but is used as an adjective. Cronk Geayee,
' Windy Hill.'
Noa, 'new ;' in Garey Noa, ' New Garden.'
Sheeant, ' holy, blessed ;' in Rhenshent, ' Holy
Ridge,' in the parish of Malew ; perhaps so named
from its proximity to a treen chapel. There are two
large boulders, called 'The Giant's Grave,' on this
place, which probably formed part of a stone
circle. [(G) Clayshant.]
Casherick, ' holy ;' in Keeill Casherick, * Holy Cell,' in
the parish of Maughold. Its walls are barely trace-
able, but the grave-yard enclosure still remains.
Kelly gives ab ahhan, A.,* belonging to an abbot or
abbey ; as thalloo-ah, ' abbey-land ; ' quaiyl-ah, ' a
court baron ;' keeill-abban, ' an abbey church ;' while
Cregeen gives ' abb, a* abbey,' only.
* Adjective.