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
