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Brig O' Turk

Drochaid Tuirc


Settlement

Location

Stirlingshire

Stirling

FK17

NN536066


English / Map Form: Brig O' Turk

Gaelic Form: Drochaid Tuirc


Location: The Trossachs

Post Town: CALLANDER

Postcode area: FK17

County: Stirlingshire

Local Authority: Stirling

English / Map Form: Brig O' Turk

Gaelic Form: Drochaid Tuirc


Sources

Kenndrochart c. 1636-52 Gordon map 51

Estirbrigend / Westirbrigend ER v, 476

 

Drochaid Thuirc no Drochaid an Tuirc: 1810 Etymological Dictionary of the names of Places in Scotland by late James Macintyre

Ceann Drochaid: Watson CW9

‘my Gaelic authorities for that district disclaimed any Gaelic origin for Brig O’ Turk’ Watson 1926, p. 453

dróχət n durçe Diack MS2276 [i.e. Drochaid an Tuirce]

Cinn Drochaid: Tony Dilworth fieldwork

Additional Information

See MacNiven 2011 for further discussion and early forms.

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