Ervie

An Eirbhe

Meaning

the dividing wall or boundary

Settlement

Location

Wigtownshire

Dumfries and Galloway

DG9

NW995674

English / Map Form: Ervie

Gaelic Form: An Eirbhe

Post Town: STRANRAER

Postcode area: DG9

County: Wigtownshire

Local Authority: Dumfries and Galloway

English / Map Form: Ervie

Gaelic Form: An Eirbhe

Sources

Ervie                        1600                        Retours (Wigton) 20
Ervie                        1625                        Retours (Wigton) 63
Hervin                      1684                        parish roll
Ervie                        1747-55                   Roy
Earvie                     1782                        Ainslie
Earvie                      1826                        Thomson
Ervie                        1849                        OS Six-inch 1st Ed.
ÈRVIE                      1887                        Maxwell
Ervie                        1901                        Bartholomew
Ervie                        2015                        OS 1:25 Explorer Map 309

“Ervie, represents Gaelic eirbhe, ‘a dividing wall or boundary’. Here the division of pasture from arable was probably once marked by a turf dyke.” MacQueen 2002: 41

Additional Information

ERVIE
[Situation] In the Southern portion of the parish adjoining the boundary close to Craigoch Mill
A large tract of land or district divided into Small farms or tenements [with] Small farm houses of an inferior Class thatched the land is chiefly arable [with] light hilly Sandy Soil it is occupied by about a dozen of tenants, or occupiers this district extends on the west nearly to Cairndonnan farm house on the South to Drumboy Hill and the Ervie Burn on the east as far as Drummullin and extends as far north as the farm of Drumdow the rough land Called Killiemuddigan this district is the property of [Sir] Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw. OS1/35/15/44

*see also Erray ~ An Eirbhe (Mull)