WAMPLE

Local. A river of England, from wem or wiam, a cleft, a cave, a low place, Gaelic; and poll, a small lake, a pond, and the same in Welsh.

WEMPLE

Local. A river of England, from wem or wiam, a cleft, a cave, a low place, Gaelic; and poll, a small lake, a pond, and the same in Welsh.

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.

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