English / Map Form: Dargavel
Gaelic Form: Doire a’ Ghabhail
Location: Bishopton
Post Town: Bishopton
County: Renfrewshire
Local Authority: Renfrewshire
English / Map Form: Dargavel
Gaelic Form: Doire a’ Ghabhail
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Dargevell 1747-55 Roy
Probably for doire gabhail (now gobhail), ‘copse of the fork’: Watson 1926, 201
There are several instances of ScG n.m/f. gabhail ‘lease’, or possibly ‘reserved for grazing; appropriated’ (DIL, under gabál), some exhibiting an intrusive ‑l‑ in anglicised form. ScG n.m. gobhal ‘fork’ is usually anglicised with go‑, but occasionally appears on record as gal(l), gawl, goil(l) or gyle. In most cases the fork is identifiable as being formed by water courses. The fork is not necessarily a conjoining of river branches, but rather refers to a narrow strip between two “prongs” which run almost parallel into a body of water.: Morgan 2013
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