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of the river Fall." (See Norden, p. 61; also D. Gilbert, iii. 361.)

TALEEN. See Tallent.

TALL. From tal, high, eminent.

TALLACK. "The name is found at Penryn and at St. Austell, and also at Norwich, where a branch settled about 1750. A place near Penryn is called Tallack's Style. It is doubtless Celtic and local. There is a place in Brecknockshire called Talack-Dhu." (Lower.) Pryce renders the Cornish tallack, tallick, tallock, highly placed, a garret. (Cf. Botallack and Retallack.) Tallick is no doubt another form of the name.

TALLARD. Tallard is the appellation of a comm. and town of France, dep. H. Alps; but the Cornish name may be from tal-ard, the high front or promontory. Hence perhaps Tallat.

TALLAT. See Tallard.

TALLENT. From Talland in West hundred; from tal-lan, the high church. Hence, by corruption, the surnames Talling, Taleen, Tellam, Tellan.

TALLERVEY. See Tollervey.

TALLICK. See Tallack.

TALLING. See Tallent.

TANNAHILL. From ten-hale, for tren-hale, the dwelling by the moor.

TELLAM, TELLAN. See Tellant.

TENCREEK. From Tencreek in Creed, which Hals derives from "ten-creek, or tene-cruck, the fire bank or tumulus, viz., the sepulchre of one interred there before the 6th century, whose body was burnt to ashes by fire, according to their accustomed manner of interring the dead;