English / Map Form: Fort Augustus
Gaelic Form: Cille Chuimein
Location: Inverness area, Highland
Post Town: FORT AUGUSTUS
County: Inverness-shire
Local Authority: Highland
Nearest Main Roads: A82
English / Map Form: Fort Augustus
Gaelic Form: Cille Chuimein
Language Notes
G nom. sg. cill, fem. ‘church’ + gen. sg. of Cuimein, masc. personal name = ‘Cuimein’s Church’Element Meaning
G cill ~ church; Cuimein ~ personal name
Sources
Cille Chuimein: Turner’s Gaelic Poems, p. 49
Cill Chuimein: Dwelly 1912
Cill Chuimein: Watson 1926, 303
kĭlljŭ cűimăn : Dieckhoff MS [text is simplified]
ciLˈə χwiman : Diack Ms2276
