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.