Balerno

Am Baile Àirneach

Settlement

Location

Midlothian

City of Edinburgh

NT165662

English / Map Form: Balerno

Gaelic Form: Am Baile Àirneach

Location: Juniper Green

Post Town: Edinburgh

County: Midlothian

Local Authority: City of Edinburgh

English / Map Form: Balerno

Gaelic Form: Am Baile Àirneach

Language Notes

 

Sources

Ballernache 1375 RMS no 577 vol. I
Ballernacht c. 1380 RMS no. 1688 Index A vol. I
Balernache 1407 RMS no. 897 vol. I
Ballernow 1471 RPS [1471/8/16]

bail(e) àirneach ‘farm at/with the sloe bushes’ Harris p. 73-74
Baile Airneach ‘sloe-tree-stead’ Watson 1926, p. 143

Alternative Forms