Cargill

Car Ghàill

Settlement

Location

Perthshire

Perth and Kinross

PH2

NO150369

English / Map Form: Cargill

Gaelic Form: Car Ghàill

Post Town: PERTH

Postcode area: PH2

County: Perthshire

Local Authority: Perth and Kinross

English / Map Form: Cargill

Gaelic Form: Car Ghàill

Genitive Form: Char Ghàill

Sources

carghāell, like nn: sounds same as àill, will, desire Diack Ms2276

“Car is the root from which carraig, creag, ‘rock,’ derives; the general idea is ‘rough,’ ‘craggy.’ The second syllable is evidently the Gaelic geal, ‘white.’” MacKinnon, Notes on the Place-names in the Inchaffray Charters