English / Map Form: Drumgelloch
Gaelic Form: Druim Gailleach
Location: North Lanarkshire
Post Town: AIRDRIE
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Local Authority: North Lanarkshire
English / Map Form: Drumgelloch
Gaelic Form: Druim Gailleach
Language Notes
Element Meaning
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“A possible variant of ScG gall is ScG gaille ‘rock, stone’. This noun was apparently lost to the general G lexicon by the latter nineteenth century. Unrecorded are the genitive forms *gailleach and *gaillich. Though an extant stone or rock is not evidenced in all instances, others are associated with monoliths and/or a cairn or cairnfield, or a flat rock acting as a parish boundary marker, or jutting into the sea, or a source of stone.”
Cf. Drummond PhD., 341
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