English / Map Form: Carnassarie
Gaelic Form: Càrn Àsaraidh
Location: Mid-Argyll
Post Town: LOCHGILPHEAD
Postcode area: PA31
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Carnassarie
Gaelic Form: Càrn Àsaraidh
Sources
| Carnastre | 1529 RMS iii, 826 |
| Carnasre | c. 1591 Pont map 15 |
| Carnastrie | 1676 Justiciary Records of Argyll, 38 |
| ?Castle Carnasaurey | 1747-55 Roy’s Map (unclear) |
| Carn asaraidh: Hogan’s Onomasticon Goidelicum |
| Carnasaraidh: Rev. Sinclair ‘Collection of Gaelic Poems’, TGSI XXVI, 1904-7, 239 |
| Càrn Asraidh; Caisteal Chàrn Àsaraidh; Càrn Àsaraidh: Nils Holmer notebooks |
Additional Information
Hogan’s source is from the Book of Common Order: commonly called John Knox’s Liturgy (1873) as Carnasaraidh.
The stress is on the second syllable.
Also applied to: Carnassarie Castle ~ Caisteal Chàrn Àsaraidh
