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Glen Cloy

Gleann Mhac Lothaidh

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North Ayrshire

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English / Map Form: Glen Cloy

Gaelic Form: Gleann Mhac Lothaidh


Location: Arran, Firth of Clyde

Post Town: BRODICK

County: Ayrshire

Local Authority: North Ayrshire

English / Map Form: Glen Cloy

Gaelic Form: Gleann Mhac Lothaidh


Language Notes

G nom. sg. gleann, masc. ‘glen’ + gen. pl. Mac Lothaidh, masc. patronymic = ‘the farm of the MacLothaidhs’ 

Element Meaning

G gleann ~ glen + G Mac Lothaidh personal name 

Sources

Glenklowy 1472 RMS ii 1096
Glen cloy 1654 Blaeu Map Arania
[gleŋkḷɔʌ] Fraser 1999, 129
Gleann ‘ac Lõthaidh Robertson MS391, 12

 

Additional Information

‘Mac Lothaidh (Mac Clothaidh ?), Englished Fullarton, as Ac Lothaidh. We may note also Gleann Ac Lothaidh or Glen Cloy, in 1472 Glenklowy, meaning Glen of Mac Loy or Fullarton, in which the family of Fullarton of Kilmichael has owned lands from the days of King Robert the Bruce.’ Celtic Review, 170 Robertson ‘Scottish Gaelic Dialects’

‘..Glencloy takes its name from the Macloys or Fullartons who held the lands of Kilmichael early in the fourteenth century… Macloy is MacLouis ir MacLoui…’ Cameron 1889, 125-126

This surnames is given in Black and Dwelly as MacLughaidh under MacCloy 

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