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Callander

Calasraid

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Stirlingshire

Stirling

NN634076


English / Map Form: Callander

Gaelic Form: Calasraid


Location: Stirlingshire

Post Town: CALLANDER

County: Stirlingshire

Local Authority: Stirling

English / Map Form: Callander

Gaelic Form: Calasraid


Genitive Form: Chalasraid

Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

 

Sources

Calasraid 1875 Am Feillire
CALDRAIT: Armstrong’s Dictionary [the place-names given round here are clustered round Perthshire, Armstong born in Kenmore.]
Callasraid, as if calas + sràid, ferry street: Watson notebook Coll-97/CW9, 62
Callander on Teith is in Gaelic Calasráid, sometimes shortened into Caltráid, for caladh-sráid, ‘shore-street,
ferry-street’;the adjective caladh, hard, came to mean also ‘firm shore, beach’ modern ‘harbour’; compare
‘the Hard’ of Portsmouth. Watson 1926, 515
Calastraid; “Calatraid”, “Drochaid Chalatraid” in west of Perthshire.: Robertson
Calastraid kaLastred’j: Dieckhoff
“Cala-t-sraid” Tonaidh Dilworth 1998

Additional Information

It would appear that for the Perthshire Callander there are two forms Calasraid (Cala-sràid) and Calatraid (Cala t-sràid).

The former looks to be a local, more common form.

Also applies to Callander Crags, NN627088: Creagan Chalasraid

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