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Dumbarton Rock

Creag Chluaidh


Coastal

Location

Dunbartonshire

West Dunbartonshire

G82

NS400745


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.

Alternative Forms

Clyde Rock

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