English / Map Form: Dunskeig
Gaelic Form: Dùn Sgeig
Post Town: Tarbert
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Dunskeig
Gaelic Form: Dùn Sgeig
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Dun Skieig 1747-55 Roy
Dùn Sgeachaig – Dun of (the) Hawthorn-berry / Dùn sgeige – the dun or fort of mockery: Alternative forms given in OS namebooks OS1/2/11/43
Dun sgeig (like sgeig mockery): Robertson
Dùn Sgéitheig: Dwelly [Possibly in error for Dunskaig in PER]
Additional Information
By the settlement is a hill called Dùn Skeig.
