Black Mountain [Clermont Cairn]
hill or mountain · Louth · 507m
Marilyn
GaelicAI-generated
Black Mountain is an anglicisation of a Gaelic name. 'Cairn' is a Gaelic word for a heap of stones. Clermont is Norman French, meaning 'clear mountain'.
Word origins
- Black
- Old Englishblack(from blæc "black")
- Mountain
- Old Englishmountain(from montagne "mountain")
- Clermont
- Norman Frenchclear mountain(from clair "clear", mont "mountain")
- Cairn
- Gaelicheap of stones(from carn "cairn, heap of stones")