English / Map Form: Balephuil
Gaelic Form: Baile a' Phuill
Location: Tiree, Inner Hebrides
Post Town: ISLE OF TIREE
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Balephuil
Gaelic Form: Baile a' Phuill
Language Notes
G nom. sg. baile, masc. ‘town’ + gen. sg. masc. def. art. a’ (leniting) + lenited gen. sg. pollElement Meaning
G baile, ‘town’ + a’ poll, mud
Sources
Balefuil 1654 Blaeu
Baile Phuill Brownlie
Literally ‘the town of mud’ evidently in connection with Loch a’ Phuill, which is
less than a mile to the north: Beveridge, 1903, 93
Bail’ a’ phuill: MacDougall & Cameron, 1938, 104
Baile Phuill: Carmina Gadelica vol iii, 190
Additional Information
Also in the song Fuadach Bhaile a’ Phuil and elsewhere.
