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Carberry

Craobhbarraidh


Meaning

at the palisade


Settlement

Location

East Lothian

East Lothian

EH21

NT373697


English / Map Form: Carberry

Gaelic Form: Craobhbarraidh


Post Town: MUSSELBURGH

Postcode area: EH21

County: East Lothian

Local Authority: East Lothian

English / Map Form: Carberry

Gaelic Form: Craobhbarraidh


Sources

“Carberry, Crefbarrin c. 1143, 1150 (Reg. Dunf.); Alexander Crabani, 1311 (Bain’s Cal.); Carbery (Chart. HoL), seems to be a compound of craobh, branch, tree, and barran, a top-fence or hedge, palisade, meaning ‘branch fence,’ or the like.” Watson 1926, 143

The -in looks like the locational suffix, although this apparently never appears where there is an intermediate genitive article. The -fb- in the Dunf. Reg. form suggests an unlenited second element.

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