cnoc

TuAM-GREiNE, a hill iu the Co - unty of Limerick, now called cnoc gréinc, cnoc j is fynonimous to tuam, both fignifying a hill, Lat. tumulus, monsm TuAMANN, fierce, morofe. ta* rih tuamannj a fierce bull.

Focalóir gaoidhilge-sax-bhéarla, or An Irish-English dictionary. Whereof the Irish part hath been compiled not only from various Irish vocabularies, particularly that of Mr. Edward Lhuyd; but also from a great variety of the best Irish manuscripts now extant .. 1768

My Gaelic dictionary gives monadh as ` mountain; moor 'and cnoc as ` hill' and I feel that the occurrence of both roots in the one word is not mere coincidence.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3 1978