English / Map Form: Clachan Seil
Gaelic Form: Clachan Shaoil
Location: Seil, Firth of Lorn, Argyll
Post Town: OBAN
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Clachan Seil
Gaelic Form: Clachan Shaoil
Element Meaning
G nom. sg. clachan, masc. ‘stone, graveyard’, here in the sense of ‘village’ + en gen. sg. Saoil
Sources
Clachan Seyle | 1697 Justiciary Records of Argyll, 100 |
Clachan Seylle / the Clachanseyll | 1697 Justiciary Records of Argyll, 99 |
Clachan | 1820 Thomson |
Additional Information
Please see Seil for additional information