English / Map Form: Galloway
Gaelic Form: Gall-Ghàidhealaibh
Post Town: NEWTON STEWART
Postcode area: DG8
County: Wigtownshire
Local Authority: Dumfries and Galloway
English / Map Form: Galloway
Gaelic Form: Gall-Ghàidhealaibh
Language Notes
Sources
Eadar Ghaidhealaibh is Ghallaibh: Na Baird Leathanach 1898
Galloway for ‘i nGall Gaidhealaibh’ ‘among the foreign Gael.’: Watson 1926, 100
This is an established name.
Additional Information
See Morgan, 2013. Ethnonyms in the place-names of Scotland and the Border counties of England: 63-64 for further reading
