The derivatives creagach and creagdn give such
names all over Scotland as Craigie and Craggan.
The earldom of Carrick takes its name from some
crag, but which particular one in that very craggy-
province there is now no means of knowing. Perhaps
it was named from the big boulder on the march of
Ayrshire and Galloway, known as the " Taxing Stone,"
from the duties which used to be levied there upon
goods passing from one province to the other.
lomaire (emery) is an obsolete word signifying
a ridge or hill -back, surviving in the name Immer-
voulin, in Perthshire — iomair mhuileain, mill-ridge,
a name which is familiar in the Anglo-Saxon form
Milrig.
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