Dalnaspidal
Dail an Spideil
Meaning
the meadow of the spittal ('rest-house')
Location
Perthshire
Perth and Kinross
PH18
NN644729
English / Map Form: Dalnaspidal
Gaelic Form: Dail an Spideil
Location: Atholl
Post Town: PITLOCHRY
Postcode area: PH18
County: Perthshire
Local Authority: Perth and Kinross
Nearest Main Roads: A9
English / Map Form: Dalnaspidal
Gaelic Form: Dail an Spideil
Sources
Dalnaspeedal 1747-55 Roy
Dalnaspidal 1783 Stobie Perth
Dalnaspidal 1820 Thomson
Dail-an-spideil: Old Stat. Acc. Blair Atholl and Strowan
Dail-an-Spideil 1859 poem “Eigh bho Chreig-Eileachaidh” Select English Poems with Gaelic Translations
Dail-an-Spideil 1904 Sinclair, the Gaelic Bards, 63
‘san Spideal: Sinton 1906, 128
“An Spideal, na mar theirte ris an nis Dail an Spideil” Paul Cameron
Additional Information
It would seem an earlier name for this place was An Spideal. Despite the earlier forms suggesting a feminine form for spideal, the element is clearly masculine in the Gaelic forms provided.
