English / Map Form: Dumbarton Rock
Gaelic Form: Creag Chluaidh
Post Town: DUMBARTON
Postcode area: G82
County: Dunbartonshire
Local Authority: West Dunbartonshire
English / Map Form: Dumbarton Rock
Gaelic Form: Creag Chluaidh
Element Meaning
G creag ‘rock’ + en. Cluaidh ‘Clyde’
Sources
Petra Cloithe 7th C VC 1.31
Alo Cluathe 658
Alcluith HEi.1
“Cho bodhar ri Creig Chluaidh” Perthshire proverb [‘as deaf as Clyde Rock’]
Additional Information
This is also known as Clyde Rock. The early forms relate to an old Gaelic word ail ‘rock’ with the Gaelic name of the Clyde. Creag is the modern form.
