Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivations

by Christina Blackie

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Ancient Books of Wales, vol. i. p. 144, with reference to the famous work of Chalmers, the Caledonia.

[2] A, signifying in possession, seems to be derived from a, Old Norse, I have; aga, I possess. The Old English awe, to own, is still retained in the north of England and in Aberdeenshire.

[3] Caer-afon (the fortress on the water) was its ancient name.

[4] It obtained the name from two large stones that lay on the roadside near the church, and possessed that property.

[5] For the word Beltein, v. Joyce’s Irish Names of Places, vol. i. p. 187; Chambers’s Encyclopædia; and Petrie’s Round Towers of Ireland.

Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.