• English
  • Gàidhlig
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • My Account
  • Checkout
  • Cart
Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (AÀA)

  • Home
  • Database
    • AZ List
  • Searchable Map
  • Resources
    • Place-name Lists
    • Maps
    • OS Map
    • Reading List
    • Gaelic Place-Name Policy
    • Onomastic Abbreviations
    • Academic Papers
    • Links
  • Support
    • AÀA Supporter
  • Shop
    • Services
    • Corporate Memberships
    • Publications
  • News
  • Contact Us
previous postnext post
  • Info
  • Location
  • Research Notes

Blairvadach

Blàr a' Bhadaich

Your browser does not support the audio element.
Settlement

Location

Argyll & Bute

Argyll & Bute

NS263852


English / Map Form: Blairvadach

Gaelic Form: Blàr a' Bhadaich


Location: Helensburgh, Argyll

Post Town: HELENSBURGH

County: Argyll & Bute

Local Authority: Argyll & Bute

English / Map Form: Blairvadach

Gaelic Form: Blàr a' Bhadaich


Language Notes

G nom. sg. blàr, ‘plain’ + gen. sg. masc. def. art a’ (leniting and slenderising) + G nom. sg. adj.badach ‘abounding in groves’ = ‘plain of the place abounding in groves’

Element Meaning

G blàr ~ plain; badach ~ abounding in groves

Sources

Blarvotych c. 1240 Cartularium comitatus de Levenax p. 45
Blairvaddich c. 1240 Cartularium comitatus de Levenax p. 45
Blairwaddich 1545 RMS no. 3140 vol. III
Blairwaddicht 1565 RMS no. 1623 vol. IV
Blairfoddag c. 1591 Pont map16
Blairvaddoich 1625 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 25
Blairfodacg 1654 Blaeu map Lennox
Blairvadoch 1655 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 53
Blairvaddoiche 1661 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 57
Blairwadick 1676 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 69
Blairvaddich 1680 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 71
Blairivadick 1685 Retours (Dumbarton) no. 78
Blairvadick 1747-1755 Roy’s Military Survey of Scotland
Blarvadaig 1777 Ross’s map of the Shire of Dumbarton.
Blarvadig, ? Blairvatan 1814 Rentals of the Parish of Row
? Blairvaddan 1832 Thomson’s Map of Scotland
Blairvadock 1865 OS 6 inch edn.
Blairvaddick 1895 Annals of Garelochside p. 74
Blairvadock 1912 Bartholomew’s Map

Additional Information

This name is not clear, the adjectival proposal would give *Blàr Badach, but lenition is consistently represented in the old forms. The genitival form would give *Blàr Bhadaig, which best fits with the later old forms, although the older forms show the final syllable as -(a)ich in most instances. The earliest form might suggest Blàr a’ Bhodaich, ‘plain of the old man’. The two forms from 1814 and 1832 ending in an may represent a separate settlement, since the name mentioned in the Rentals is in the same list as the Blarvadig form and the Thompson name is some distance from the site of present day Blairvadach. A possibility exists that the specific represents lenited gen. sg. mhadaidh,
of nom. sg. madadh, ‘wolf ’, but the old forms suggest a final syllable in -aig or -ach rather than
-aidh.

Primary Sidebar

OS Map

Welcome to the Ordnance Survey (OS) open source digital map. This is a tool you can use to study ... Continue Reading about OS Map

Our Products

  • The A to Z of Whisky Place-Names: Landscape, Language & Invention £16.99
  • Gaelic and Norse in the Landscape – Place names in Caithness and Sutherland £0.00

News

AINMEAN-ÀITE NA H-ALBA WELCOMES NEW CHAIR

Footer

Gaelic Place-names of Scotland

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Sleat
Isle of Skye
IV44 8RQ

+44 (0) 1471 888 120
fios@ainmean-aite.scot

Useful links

  • About Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba
  • How to use the search
  • Commercial Information & Rates
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Other Policies
  • Terms & Conditions

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Database
    • AZ List
  • Searchable Map
  • Resources
    • Place-name Lists
    • Maps
    • OS Map
    • Reading List
    • Gaelic Place-Name Policy
    • Onomastic Abbreviations
    • Academic Papers
    • Links
  • Support
    • AÀA Supporter
  • Shop
    • Services
    • Corporate Memberships
    • Publications
  • News
  • Contact Us

Site Search

Follow Us

  • E-mail
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

BNAG Logo

Copyright © 2023 Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba. All rights reserved. Website by Lumberjack Digital

Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimise our website and our service.
Functional cookies Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}