Origin
BUCKLIN : (Gaelic) Local. From Buccklyn, a town in Sterlingshire, Scotland. The name may be derived from Boc, plural, Buic, a roe-buck, deer, and linne, a pool or lake. View the POOL results.
DALRYMPLE : Local. Taken from the lands and barony of Dalrymple, in Ayrshire, Scotland. The name is said to be a corruption of ihe Gaelic Dale-roi-milleadh, which signifies the valley of the slaughter of kings, and the place was so called from a battle fought there before the Christian era, in which two kings, Fergus and Coilus, were slain. According to others, it signifies the valley of the crooked pool. I think the name signifies the valley on the margin of the pool, from the Welsh Dol, a valley; rhim, the edge or border, and pwll, a pool It is very nearly the same in Gaelic; Dail, a vale, troimh, by, along the whole extent, and poll, a small lake.
KILLIN : (Gaelic.) Local. A place in Perthshire, Scotland, from Cill-lin, that is, the church or burying-place on the pool.
LINCOLN : Local. From Lincoln in England. The name is derived from Lin in the Gaelic, Welsh, and Cor. Br., which signifies a pool, pond, or lake, and coln, the ridge or neck of a hill, so called from its situation, as it occupies the top and side of a steep hill on the river Witham, which here divides into three streams.
LINN : Local. A pool, pond, or lake. Welsh, llyn; Cor. Br., lyn; Gaelic, lline, a pond.
LINNE : Local. A pool, pond, or lake. Welsh, llyn; Cor. Br., lyn; Gaelic, lline, a pond.
LINTON : Local. From Lin, a lake or pool, and ton, a town. A parish in Roxburgshire, Scotland.
PELHAM : Local. From the lordship of Pelham, in Hertfordshire, England, either from peele, a tower, castle, or from pool, a small lake, and ham, a village.
PELLYN : (Cor. Br.) The distant pool. Pyling, an old word denoting a superstructure.
PILLINGS : (Cor. Br.) The distant pool. Pyling, an old word denoting a superstructure.
POLLOCK : Local. Derived from the parish of Pollock, in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The name is from the Gaelic Pollag, a little, pool, pit, or pond, a diminutive of pol, a pool. It is vulgarly pronounced Pock or Polk.
POOLE : Local. A small collection of water in a hollow place, supplled by a spring; a small lake. John at the Pool, became John Pool. A town in Dorsetshire, England.
POULTON : Local. From the town of Poulton, in Lancashire, England, also a place near Marlborough, in Wiltshire, so called from Pool, a small lake, and ton, a town.
WEMPEL : Wampull, a river in England. Wimpole, a place in London, a flag-staff. Wem, a town in England, also in Scotland, and signifies a hollow place, a cave; Wempool, the pool in the hollow or low place.
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