English / Map Form: Barry Links
Gaelic Form: Machair Bharraidh
Location: Carnoustie ~ Càrn Ùstaidh
Post Town: Dundee ~ Dùn Dè
Local Authority: Angus
English / Map Form: Barry Links
Gaelic Form: Machair Bharraidh
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| baronium de Barrie | 1587 RMS v, 1384 | |
| baronia de Barry | 1588 RMS v, 1439 | |
| baronia de Barry | 1591 RMS v, 1838 | |
| baronia de Barry | 1591 RMS v, 1953 | |
| Barry c. | 1591 Pont map 26 | |
| Barre c. | 1680 Robert’s Angusia | |
| aig Barry Links | 1890 Bràiste Lathurna by Dugald Gordon MacDougall 1959 | |
Barry is a parish name. This name is possibly from bàrr, ‘summit’ + a locational ending
-aidh, with the same extension or variation in meaning as ros, from a vertical protrusion
to a horizontal promontory. This would clearly relate to the promontory here.
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