In this section you will find a list of published material by our researcher Dr Jacob King. The SNH booklets are available for a postage fee through our online shop and we have added links where possible to the other publications. If you have any queries or comments please get in touch.
‘Place-names of the Aird and Strathglass, Inverness-shire’ (August 2019) [with Simon Taylor and Ronald MacLean]
‘Gaelic in the Landscape Place-names Eriskay’ (Scottish Natural Heritage 2019) [with Liam Crouse]
‘Scottish Gaelic Place-names: The Collected Works of Charles M. Robertson 1864-1927’ (Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba, 2019)
‘Island Place-names’, Scottish Islands Explorer, May/June 2019
‘A Review of: Reading the Gaelic Landscape Leughadh Aghaidh na Tìre’ Scottish Studies 39, 2018
‘Gaelic Place-name of the Week’, The Scotsman (2016-2018) [This was weekly column in the Gaelic Page, focussing on a different place-name each week , which can be found in our blog.]
‘Gaelic in the Landscape Place-names of Colonsay and Oronsay’ (Scottish Natural Heritage 2017) [with Eilidh Scammell]
‘The Semantic Structure of Scottish Hydronomy: Fifty Years on’, Scottish Place-name News No. 42, Spring 2017: 5
‘Early Gaelic names in Scotland’ (Historic Environment Scotland 2017)
‘Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Strath, Isle of Skye’ (Scottish Natural Heritage 2015) [with Eilidh Scammell]
‘Gaelic Bùrn as a Generic Element in the North East of Scotland’, Scottish Place-name News No. 39, Autumn 2015: 12
‘Varia: Aberlady and Abersuainie’, The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 8, 2014
‘Gaelic in the Landscape: The Rough Bounds of Lochaber’ (Scottish Natural Heritage 2013) [with Dr Heather Clyne]
‘Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names in Islay and Jura’ (Scottish Natural Heritage 2011) [with Michelle Cotter]
‘Varia: Aberkarf’, The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 4, 2010: 159
‘Aberkarf’, Scottish Place-name News No. 28, Spring 2010: 5
‘Varia: Haberberui: An Aberration?’, The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 3, 2009: 127
‘Analytical Tools for Toponymy: Their Application to Scottish Hydronymy’, PhD., The University of Edinburgh, 2008
‘The Brittonic Language on the Old North’, Scottish Place-name News No. 24, Spring 2008: 7
‘Varia: Endrick and Lunan’, The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 1, 2007: 150
‘Review of Placenames of the Isle of Man’, The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 1, 2007: 174
‘‘Lochy’ names and Adomnán’s Nigra Dea’ Nomina 29, 2005