TUAR (Gadhelic),
a bleach-green, Anglicised toor; e.g. Tooreen (little bleach-green); Tooreenagrena (the sunny little bleach-green); Monatore (the bog of the bleach-green); Tintore, for Tigh-an-tuair (the house at the bleach-green), in Ireland.
TULACH (Gadhelic),
a little hill or mound, and also a measure of land—Anglicised tulla, tullow, tully, or tulli; e.g. Tullow (the hill); Tullamore (great hill); Tullanavert (the hill of the graves, ferta); Tullaghcullion and Tullycullion (of the holly); Kiltullagh (church hill); Tullaghan (little hill); Tallow, Co. Waterford, more correctly Tealach-an-iarainn (the hill of the iron, from the neighbouring iron mines); Tullyallen, on the Boyne, and Tulliallan, in Perthshire, i.e. Tulaigh-álainn (the beautiful hill); Tullyard (high hill); Tillicoultry (the hill at the back of the land), in Clackmannan; Tullibardine (the bard’s hill); Tulloch-gorum (the blue hill); Tullybody (the hill of the black cow, bo dubh); Tillyfour (the grassy hill, feoiridh). Tully or tilly, however, is sometimes a corruption of teaglach (a family), as in Tullynessle and Tillymorgan—v. W. Skene, LL.D.
TUNDRA (Tartar),
a mossy flat, the name given to the vast plains on the Arctic Ocean.
TURA (Tartar),
a town or settlement; e.g. Tura, a river in Russia, so called by the Tartars because they made a settlement at the place; Tura, also in Hungary; O’Tura (old town); Turinsk (the town on the R. Tura), in Russia.
TWISTLE (Scand.),
a boundary; e.g. Twistleton (the town on the boundary); Oswaldtwistle (Oswald’s boundary); Haltwistle (high boundary); Birchtwistle (birch-tree boundary); Ectwistle (oak-tree boundary).