English / Map Form: Camelon
Gaelic Form: Camalan
Location: Falkirk
Post Town: FALKIRK
Local Authority: Falkirk
English / Map Form: Camelon
Gaelic Form: Camalan
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| Camelodunum | 1526 Boece | |||
| This ciete of Camelon | 1536 Bellenden i. p.29 | |||
| Camelon | 1536 Bellenden i p.82 | |||
| the ciete of Camelon | 1536 Bellenden | |||
| Camelon | 1586 Camden | |||
| city of Camelon | 1668 Lauder p.496 | |||
| which the vulgar call to this day Camelon | 1701 Sibbald | |||
| Camelon or Camelot | 1720 Stukely | |||
| this ruinous town Camelon | 1726 Gordon | |||
| New Camelon | 1755 Roy | |||
| Old Camelon, New Camelon | 1780 Ross | |||
| Camelon | 1781 AOS 28 |
Additional Information
See BLITON, which notes the possibility of cam[b] + -lïnn. The old forms have been influenced by the forms of Camulodunum and Camlan. Camalan may be the preferable form here since it best fits the forms and avoids false etymology.
Thanks to John Reid for the old forms for Camelon (see Bibliography).