From that soft-spoken friend of all Sweden's little idiosyncracies, Paddy K, a fresh cell phone snapshot of Kilnaughton abbey in Tarbert, County Kerry, south-west Ireland. The ruins are 600 years old and the site is still in use as a cemetery: among other illustrious lineages, the K clan has a family plot.
Tarbert is a common place name on the Celtic fringe, meaning "isthmus", Sw. näs, a narrow stretch of land between two bodies of water. A well-informed source assures me that the ones in Scotland are quite inferior to the Co. Kerry original.
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Tarbert/isthmus would be synonomous with Swedish ed/ede rather than näs, Martin.--
Actually näs denotes both a long narrow promontory and an isthmus, while ed means only isthmus.
with that be cognate w/ "nose"?
Yes!