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
Element Meaning
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
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