CAPEL (Cel.),
KAPELLE (Ger.),
a chapel, derived from the Low Lat. capella; e.g. How-capel (the chapel in the hollow), in Hereford; Capel-Ddewi (St. David’s chapel); Capel St. Mary and Maria-Kappel (St. Mary’s chapel); Capel-Garmon (St. Germano’s chapel); Chapelle-au-bois (the chapel in the wood); Capelle-op-den-Yssel (the chapel on the R. Yessel), in Holland; Kreuzcappel (the chapel with the cross).
CAPER (Lat.), CHÈVRE (Fr.),
CAPRA, CABRA (Span., Port., and It.),
GABHAR, and GOBHAR (Gadhelic),
GAFR, or GAVAR (Cym.-Cel.),
a goat; e.g. Capri, Caprera, Cabrera (goat island); Chèvreuse, anc. Capriosa (the place of goats); Chevry, Chevrière, Chevreville, with the same meaning, in France; Gateshead, in Co. Durham, Lat. Capræ-caput, perhaps the Latin rendering of the Saxon word (the head of the gat or passage)—the Pons Ælius of the Romans; or, according to another meaning, from the custom of erecting the head of some animal on a post as a tribal emblem. In Ireland, Glengower (the glen of the goats), and Glengower, in Scotland; Ballynagore (goat’s town), in Ireland; Gowrie and Gower, in several counties of Scotland; Ardgower (goat’s height); Carnan-gour (the goat’s crag).
CAR (Cel.),
crooked or bending; e.g. the Rivers Carron, in several parts of Scotland; Charente and Charenton, in France; also the Cher, anc. Carus (the winding river).
CARN, CAIRN (Gadhelic),
CARN (Welsh),
CARNEDD, a heap of stones, such as was erected by the ancient Britons over the graves of their great men; e.g. Carn-Ingli (the cairn of the English); Carn-Twrne (the cairn of the turnings). It was named from a stupendous monument which stood on three pillars, within a circuit of upright stones.
a heap of stones thrown together in a conical form, also a rocky mount; e.g. Carnac (abounding in cairns), in Brittany; Carnmore (great cairn); Carnock (the hill of the cairn); Carntoul, Gael. Carn-t-sabhal (the cairn of the barn); Carntaggart (of the priest); Carnrigh (of the king); Cairndow, Cairnglass, Cairngorm (the black, the gray, the blue mountains); Cairnan and Cairnie (little cairn); Carnwath (the cairn at the ford); Carnoustie (the cairn of heroes); Carnbee (the birch cairn), in Scotland. In Ireland: Carntochar (the hill of the causeway); Carn-Tierno (Tigernach’s cairn); Carnbane (white cairn); Carnsore Point, in Irish being simply the carn or monumental heap, ore (a promontory) having been added by the Danes; Carnteel, Irish Carn-t-Siadhal (Shiel’s monument). In Wales: Carn-Dafydd (David’s cairn); Carn-Llewelyn (Llewelyn’s cairn); Carnfach (little cairn), in Monmouth; Fettercairn, perhaps the deer’s cairn, Gael. feidh (deers); Chirnside (the side or site of the cairn), on one of the Lammermuir Hills; Carnoch (abounding in cairns), a parish in Fife; Boharm, in Banffshire, anc. Bocharin (the bow about the cairn). The countries of Carniola and Carinthia probably derived their names from this Celtic root.
CARRAIG, CARRICK (Gadhelic),
CRAG, or CARREG (Welsh),
CARRAG (Cornish),
a rock. The words are usually applied to large natural rocks, more or less elevated. Carrick and Carrig are the names of numerous districts in Ireland, as well as Carrick in Ayrshire; Carrigafoyle (the rock of the hole, phoill), in the Shannon; Carrickaness (of the waterfall); Ballynacarrick (the town of the rocks); Carrigallen, Irish Carraig-aluinn (the beautiful rock); Carrickanoran (the rock of the spring, uaran); Carrickfergus (Fergus’s rock), where one Fergus was drowned; Carrick-on-Suir (on the R. Suir); Carriga-howly, Irish Carraig-an-chobhlaigh (the rock of the fleet); Carrickduff (black rock); Carrigeen and Cargan (little rock); Carragh (rocky ground); but Carrick-on-Shannon is not derived from this root—its ancient name was Caradh-droma-ruise (the weir of the marsh ridge); Cerrig-y-Druidion (the rock of the Druids), in Wales.