English / Map Form: Airbles
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Post Town: MOTHERWELL
Postcode area: ML1
County: Lanarkshire
Local Authority: North Lanarkshire
English / Map Form: Airbles
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Language Notes
Sources
| ?Erbles | 1591 Pont [name not very clear] |
| Eroles | 1654 Blaeu |
| Airbless | 1747-55 Roy |
| Herblas | 1832 Thomson |
This is spelt as Airblessin some 19th C publications.
This is obscure. There is no evidence of this being two settlements in a Scots context, i.e. *North
and South Airble. Moreover, the forms suggest the final -s to be voicless rather than a voiced
sibilant denoting a plural.
Cf also Reid 2009, 206: Airbland Herbland1608, is obscure but may have a personal name as a first
element.
