English / Map Form: Finlaggan
Gaelic Form: Port an Eilein
Location: Islay
Post Town: ISLE OF ISLAY
Postcode area: PA45
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Finlaggan
Gaelic Form: Port an Eilein
Sources
Portalanynlagane 1507 [i.e. Port an Eilein + Fhinlagan (a saint’s name)]
Port an Eilein: Robertson 2019, p. 403 [also given as ‘Portanellan’]
“Portanellan, for Port an Eilean = Port of the Island; the landing-place from Eilean Finlagan.” Capt. F. W. L. Thomas ‘On Islay Place-Names’ 270
“Portanellan, for Port an Eilein, Port of the Island, i.e., the landing place from the island of Finlagan” MacNeil, New Guide to Islay, 69