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.
