Here we have gathered a variety of resources that may be of interest to Gaelic place-name enthusiasts and linguists alike. If you know of any other online resources relevant to the categories below or would like to suggest a new category, please get in touch.
Scottish Place-name Resources
By Area
- Applecross Place-names Project
- Beauly, The Aird and Strathglass Place-name Survey
- The Berwickshire Place-name Resource
- Borgue Field Name Project
- Fife Place-name Database
- Gaelic Place-names along the West Highland Way
- Iona’s Namescape
- Loch Torridon Place-names
- LONGSHIPS ON THE SAND – Viking and later medieval settlement on the island of Tiree
- The Non-Celtic Place-Names of the Scottish Border Counties
- The Papar Project
- Place-names in and around the Fleet Valley
- Place-Names of the Coalfield Communities
- Place-names of the Galloway Glens
- The Place-names of Midlothian
- Place-names in SERF
- Shetland Place-names Project
- Tiree Place-names
Forgotten Woodlands
General
- BLITON – Brittonic Language in the Old North
- The Gazetteer of Scotland 1882
- Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-Names
- The Journal of Scottish Names Studies
- Land Assessment Scotland – Denis Rixson
- Ordnance Survey Name Books
- Ordnance Survey – The Gaelic Origins of Place-names
- Ordnance Survey – The Scandinavian Origins of Place-names
- Ordnance Survey – The Scots Origins of Place-names
- Ordnance Survey – The Welsh Origins of Place-names
- Saints in Scottish Place-names
- Scots Words and Place-names
- Scottish Place-name Society
Mapping Resources
- AÀA Research Map – search for names on the current OS maps
- Digimap – University of Edinburgh
- PANDA – Place and name data attributes for OS 1900 map
- National Library of Scotland – Maps
- NLS – GB1900 Dot Map
- NLS – Pont Maps of Scotland
- NLS – Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland
- UK Grid Reference Finder
- Ordnance Survey
Archives
- Am Baile – Highland History and Culture
- Tobar an Dualchais
- Tobar an Dualchais Transcriptions
- Hathi Trust Digital Library
- Highland Historic Environment Record
- Google Books
- Internet Archive
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland
- Trove.scot – The key to Scotland’s past
- Gazetteer for Scotland
- The Surnames of Scotland
- SCRAN
- People of Medieval Scotland
- Old Roads of Scotland
- Scotland’s Oldest Bridges
- The British Newspaper Archive
- Vision of Britain
Gaelic Dictionaries
- Faclair na Gàidhlig
- Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic (Dasg)
- Handbook of Biblical and Ecclesiastical Gaelic
- Historic Environment Scotland – Gaelic Thesaurus
- NatureScot – Dictionary of Gaelic Nature Words
- An Seotal
- Dwelly
- Am Faclair Beag
- MacBain’s Dictionary
- Gràmar G
- Old Norse Loan-Words in Scottish Gaelic
Other Dictionaries
- eDIL – Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Foras na Gaeilge – Foclóir
- Teanglann
- Dictionars o the Scots Leid
- Middle English Dictionary
- Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
- Geiriadur Prifyscol Cymru
- Prifysgol Cymru, Y Drindod Dewi Sant – Geiriadur
- Gerlyver Kernewek – Cornish Dictionary
- Cumbric Dictionary
- Germanic Lexicon Project – An Icelandic-English Dictionary
Gaelic Online
- Scottish Parliament Gaelic Blog
- Gaelic signs on Flickr
- Gaelic Affairs, Nova Scotia
- The Gaelic Council of Nova Scotia
- Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI
- Learn Gaelic
- Speak Gaelic
- Education Scotland – Gaelic Education Terminology
- National Health Service – List of Signs
- Place-name list from GOC 2009
Goidelic Place-names Elsewhere
- Logainm, Ireland
- Meitheal Logainm, Ireland
- Placenamesni, Northern Ireland
- The Place-names of the Isle of Man with their Origin and History
- Gaelic Placenames in Nova Scotia
Brythonic Place-names
- Cumbric Place-names
- The Old North – Cumbric Place-names
- Welsh Place-name Society
- An Index to the Historical Place-names of Cornwall
