Three-cornered Plot (EN) / Splatt Trykornel (KW)

Type: 
Infrastructure
Parish: 
Penzance
Hundred: 
Penwith
Notes: 
Late medieval market place, now built over
Elements: 

kornel

Meaning: 
corner

splatt

Meaning: 
plot of land

try-

Meaning: 
triple (prefix)
Elements notes: 
ECF: <splatt> ‘plot of land’ + <try> ‘triple’ + <kornel> ‘corner’
Historic forms: 
Three-cornered spot 1838 (Gilbert, 1838) Three-cornered Plot 1591 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 33) Three-cornered Plot 1834 (Pool, The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance, 1974, p. 81)