annagh or anna: marsh
ard : height or high
bally: a settlement of some sort
beg: little
boy: yellow
bro or broagh: edge of
brae: a hill with a road over it
burren: rocky area
cahard: high bog
cargy: rocks
carrick : a rock
carrow: a quarterland , meaning part of a townland
cashel: castle
cill : church
clief or cleithe: wattle or timber
coinin or coney: rabbit
cloch : stone
clonta : a meadow
coney or coinin: rabbit
corragh: rugged or pointed
cott: wooden boat
craig: rocky or crag
creevy : many branches; a wooden district
cu – in people’s names a champion or graceful, swift, courageous
curragh: marsh
darragh: bulls
derry : oak grove or woods
donagh: church
doo: black
drin or dron: humps or ridges
drum: a ridge or hill
dun: fort of chieftains
eden or edna: high brow (of a hill)
fofann: a place abounding with thistles
gar: short
glas : green
inish: island
kil / killy: a church or sometimes a wood
knock : a hill
leggy: a hollow
let : grave
lis : fort
lough : lake
maghera: a plain
meel : ants
money : shrubs
more : big
na : of naive saint
ness: weasel
neve : saint
nua: new
ra or rae: a level place
rath: hill fort
rin : ridge
ros : a promontory or grove
shannagh: foxes
slieve: mountain
talagh : a hillock
tanagh : mound or rampart
tieve : hillside
tonnagh/ tonagh: a field, a woodland
tooder : tanner
tullach: hill
tully: a hill or mound
turk : boar