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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

  • The Papar Project
  • Tiree Place-names
  • Applecross Place-names Project
  • Loch Torridon Place-names
  • Fife Place-name Database
  • The Berwickshire Place-name Resource
  • Place-names of the Galloway Glens
  • Beauly, The Aird and Strathglass Place-name Survey
  • Place-names in SERF
  • The Place-names of Midlothian
  • The Non-Celtic Place-Names of the Scottish Border Counties
  • Iona’s Namescape

General

  • Scotlands Places
  • Scottish Place-name Society
  • Saints in Scottish Place-names
  • The Journal of Scottish Names Studies
  • Tobar an Dualchais – List of Parishes in Gaelic
  • Ordnance Survey – The Gaelic Origins of Place-names
  • BLITON – Brittonic Language in the Old North
  • Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-Names
  • Ordnance Survey Name Books
  • Scots Words and Place-names

Mapping Resources

  • National Library of Scotland – Maps
  • NLS – GB1900 Dot Map
  • NLS – Pont Maps of Scotland
  • NLS – Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland
  • Digimap – University of Edinburgh
  • UK Grid Reference Finder
  • Ordnance Survey

Archives

  • Am Baile – Highland History and Culture
  • Tobar an Dualchais
  • Tobar an Dualchais Transcriptions
  • Hathi Trust Digital Library
  • Google Books
  • Internet Archive
  • Statistical Accounts of Scotland
  • Canmore – National Record of the Historic Environment
  • 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)
  • Historic Environment Scotland – Gaelic Thesaurus
  • NatureScot – Dictionary of Gaelic Nature Words
  • An Seotal
  • Dwelly
  • Am Faclair Beag
  • MacBain’s Dictionary

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
  • Taggloo – Manx Dictionary
  • Gerlyver Kernewek – Cornish Dictionary
  • Cumbric Dictionary

Gaelic Online

  • Scottish Parliament Gaelic Blog
  • Gaelic signs on Flickr
  • CnaG – Mountain names
  • Gaelic Affairs, Nova Scotia
  • The Gaelic Council of Nova Scotia
  • Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI
  • Learn Gaelic

Goidelic Place-names Elsewhere

  • Logainm, Ireland
  • Meitheal Logainm, Ireland
  • Placenamesni, Northern Ireland
  • Ulster Place-name Society
  • Manx Language Network – Place-names
  • The Place-names of the Isle of Man with their Origin and History
  • Gaelic Placenames in Nova Scotia
  • The Gaels and their Place Names 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
  • Cornish Language Place-names

Other Useful Links

  • Scots Language Centre
  • Scottish Handwriting
  • Glasgow University
  • Edinburgh University
  • The Gaelic College, Nova Scotia
  • Manx Language Network
  • Go Cornish

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