Carloose (EN) / Karloos (KW)

Type: 
Settlement
Parish: 
Grampound with Creed
Hundred: 
Powder
Elements: 

kar

Meaning: 
fort

loos

Meaning: 
grey
Elements notes: 
<kar> ‘fort, enclosed farm’ + <loos> ‘grey’
Historic forms: 
Carloes juxta Lyfny 1370 (Gover, 1948) Carloys by Treygyan 1373 (Gover, 1948) Carlowse 1586 (Gover, 1948)