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Craigengall

Creag nan Gall


Meaning

the rocky hill associated with the outlanders


Settlement

Location

West Lothian

West Lothian

EH48

NS921713


English / Map Form: Craigengall

Gaelic Form: Creag nan Gall


Post Town: BATHGATE

Postcode area: EH48

County: West Lothian

Local Authority: West Lothian

English / Map Form: Craigengall

Gaelic Form: Creag nan Gall


Sources

Cragyngall 1426 CGRH (Wilkinson 1992, 18)

Cragingaw 1539 RMS iii no. 2298

Cragingalle c. 1540 rent roll (Wilkinson 1992, 18)

Craigingaw 1591 RMS v no. 2303

Craigingall 1568–1686 Prot. Bk Johnsoun–Kirk Session MS

 

“Craigengall is for Creag nan Gall, ‘rock of the foreigners,’ i.e. English”: Watson 1926, 146

Early forms and Gaelic form sourced from Morgan 2013.

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