English / Map Form: Ballantrae
Gaelic Form: Baile na Tràgha
Location: South Ayrshire
Post Town: GIRVAN
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Local Authority: South Ayrshire
English / Map Form: Ballantrae
Gaelic Form: Baile na Tràgha
Language Notes
Element Meaning
G baile ~ township; tràigh ~ beach
Sources
Balintre, in Jersh balana tray i.e. a town on ye shore 1699 David Parry MS. H. 4. 28
Ballantrae, on the Ayrshire Coast, is properly Baile-na-tragha, “the town on the beach.”: MacKinnon, Place-Names and Personal Names in Argyll
Bail’-an-tràid: MacKinnon Celtic Revew 1910
Baile-na-tràigh: 1919? Cruinne-Eolas An Deo-Ghreine xiv
Ballantrae in Ayrshire represents Baile an Tràigh, ‘Township at the strand’. A, Martin, Place-names of Kintyre
Additional Information
David Parry’s form balana tray suggests Baile na Tràgha. Tràigh is an old neuter noun and as such is normally now feminine, but sometimes masculine.