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Mull of Kintyre
The Mull of Kintyre is the southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre Peninsula (formerly ''Cantyre'') in southwest Scotland. From here, the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland is visible on a calm and clear day, and a historic lighthouse, the second commissioned in Scotland, guides shipping in the intervening North Channel. The area has been immortalised in popular culture by the 1977 hit song "Mull of Kintyre" by Kintyre resident Paul McCartney's band of the time, Wings.
==Etymology==
The name is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Maol Chinn Tìre ((:mɯːlˠ̪ çiɲˈtʲʰiːɾʲə)), in English: "The rounded (bare ) headland of Kintyre", where chinn and tìre are the genitive forms of ceann ''head'' and tìr ''land, country'' respectively. The English variant ''Cantyre'' derives from the phrase ceann tìre /kʲeṉ: tʲʰiːɾʲə/ ''head land''.
Mull as a geographical term is most commonly found in southwest Scotland, where it is often applied to headlands or promontories, and, often more specifically, for the tip of that promontory or peninsula.
The term "mull" derives from (スコットランド・ゲール語:maol) "bald, bare, baldness, bareness".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mull )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="maol" in Gaelic-English Dictionary )〕 The geographical reference is to a land formation bare of trees, such as a rounded hill, summit, mountain, promontory or headland.
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