Several supposed etymologies have been omitted from Mr. Hals and from Mr. Tonkin, as being evidently unfounded. Bonython appears to be derived from the well-known word for an house, and possibly ethon, furze.
This parish contains 2,673 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 2529 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 221 | 9 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 304 | in 1811, 347 | in 1821, 505 | in 1831, 525 |
giving an increase of 73 per cent. in 30 years.
Parish Feast on the nearest Sunday to November the second, or to all Souls Day.
THE GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
The most southern portion of Cury forms a part of Goonhilly Downs, which rest on a dark and rather hard serpentine, spangled with small scales of diallage, and having asbestos, indurated talc, and other magnesian minerals, lining the joints, by which this rock may be easily split. The remainder of the parish is composed of compact and schistose hornblend rocks, of the calcareous series, which are best exposed on the shores of Gunwalloe.